ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,001, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Schneider Electric (China) Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Mechanical breakpoint module and solid-state circuit breaker" was invented by Lin Gu (Shanghai) and Zhigang Han (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanical breakpoint module, which is used for a solid-state circuit breaker and includes a housing; a handle; a fixed contact; a moving contact; a transmission assembly through which the movement of the handle is transmitted to the moving contact; an energy storage component connected to the transmission assembly and configured to drive the transmission assembly to move; a locking assembly capab...