ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,176, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Littelfuse Inc. (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Hybrid conductive paste for fast-opening, low-rating fuses" was invented by Hossein Talebinezhad (Fremont, Calif.), Jianhua J. Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Victor Oliver Tabell (Lipa City, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein a circuit protection devices including a fusible element attached to a ceramic substrate, the fusible element comprising a paste including a plurality of nickel particles."

The patent was filed on Feb. 6, 2024, under Application No. 18/433,822.

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