ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,543, issued on May 5, was assigned to Schneider Electric (China) Co. Ltd (Beijing).
"Solid-state circuit breaker" was invented by Shunxian Mao (Shanghai), Haijun Zhao (Shanghai), Jiamin Chen (Shanghai), Hongliang Wang (Shanghai), Yu Chen (Shanghai), Hanyi Liu (Shanghai) and Ying Shi (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a solid-state circuit breaker including an electronic switch and a mechanical switch connected in series, the mechanical switch includes: a handle micro-switch, configured to be actuated upon the handle rotating to the on position and released upon the handle leaving the on position; ...