ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,272, issued on July 7, was assigned to Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).
"Manually resettable switch apparatus" was invented by Matthias Altmann (Bad Pyrmont, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manually resettable switch apparatus, which is controllable into a first or a second operating state, includes: a current path with an input terminal to which an input voltage can be applied, and an output terminal, a manually pluggable relay having a coil and a switching element which is switched into the current path when the relay is plugged in, a control and evaluation device which is designed to detect a defective op...