US Patent Issued to Pass & Seymour on June 30 for "Electrical wiring device for providing variable power" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,212, issued on June 30, was assigned to Pass & Seymour Inc. (Syracuse, N.Y.).

"Electrical wiring device for providing variable power" was invented by Joshua Haines (Marcellus, N.Y.), Richard Rohmer (Memphis, N.Y.) and Yianni Kostaris (Syracuse, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power control device for providing variable power to a load. The power control device including a single FET employed in conjunction with a bridge rectifier to reverse bias the body diode of the FET except for when a sufficient voltage is provided to the gate of the FET. A temperature compensation circuit reduces the on-time of the bridge rectifier when a ...