US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric (China) on June 30 for "Solid-state circuit breaker" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,042, issued on June 30, was assigned to Schneider Electric (China) Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Solid-state circuit breaker" was invented by Yang Hu (Beijing) and Zhigang Han (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a solid-state circuit breaker including a mounting side plate; an operating handle disposed on the mounting side plate and being rotatable relative to the mounting side plate to switch between a closing state and an opening state; a mechanical switch connected to the operating handle, wherein in a case that the operating handle is rotated by a first angle from the closing state along a rotation dire...