ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,731, issued on March 3, was assigned to LS ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Power device protection apparatus" was invented by Sunghee Kang (Anyang-si, South Korea), Jungwook Sim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Woonghyeob Song (Anyang-si, South Korea), Dongjin Yun (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Chaeyoon Bae (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a power device protection apparatus. A power device protection apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a comparator which is connected to a power device, and determines whether an overcurrent of the power d...