ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,741, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Schneider Electric (China) Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Solid state circuit breaker" was invented by Baoyun Bi (Beijing), Ying Shi (Shanghai), Jiamin Chen (Beijing) and Qing Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a solid state circuit breaker, comprising: a first switch; a second switch, connected in series with the first switch in a circuit to be protected; an operation switch, connected to the second switch, wherein the second switch is closed in a case that the operation switch is in a closed position, and is opened in a case that the operation s...