US Patent Issued to PHOENIX CONTACT on April 14 for "Plug-in contact device for preventing an arc when separating a direct current connection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,457, issued on April 14, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Plug-in contact device for preventing an arc when separating a direct current connection" was invented by Marc Klimpel (Lage, Germany), Fredrik Brand (Schieder-Schwalenberg, Germany), Karsten Krome (Detmold, Germany), Ruediger Meyer (Bad Pyrmont, Germany), Rainer Durth (Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany), Markus Hanses (Hoexter, Germany), Martin Schaefers (Paderborn, Germany), Ralf Beckmann (Detmold, Germany), Sebastian Loke (Luedge, Germany) and Philipp Juergensmeier (Barntrup, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plug-in contact device for pr...