ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,558, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Deflection member, breaking module, and contactor" was invented by Yuanzhong Wang (Shanghai), Jiaren Xiao (Shanghai), Xuedong Xia (Shanghai) and Omer Karaagac (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a deflection member, including a first arc striking portion and a second arc striking portion extending in a first direction and parallel to each other; a base portion extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and disposed in a biased manner between the first arc striking portion and t...