US Patent Issued to LS ELECTRIC on April 21 for "Solid state circuit breaker and control method therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,525, issued on April 21, was assigned to LS ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Solid state circuit breaker and control method therefor" was invented by Dongjin Yun (Anyang-si, South Korea), Sunghee Kang (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Woonghyeob Song (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a solid state circuit breaker, comprising: a semiconductor switch unit including a semiconductor switch that electrically connects or disconnects a power system and a load according to a voltage applied to a gate terminal; and a control unit that, when the semiconductor circuit breaker is tur...