US Patent Issued to Lehigh University on June 9 for "Fault current bypass based solid state breakers and active clamping snubbers for DC circuit breakers" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,035, issued on June 9, was assigned to Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.).

"Fault current bypass based solid state breakers and active clamping snubbers for DC circuit breakers" was invented by Fei Lu (Wynnewood, Pa.), Hua Zhang (Philadelphia) and Reza Kheirollahi (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs) have been witnessing an impressive progress with the aid of wide bandgap (WBG) devices such as silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs. Along with obtaining high efficiency as the result of low on-state resistance, response times have been gaining remarkable achievements in microseconds range. Not only t...