ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,659, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Direct current circuit breaker device and control method therefor" was invented by Zongqian Shi (Shanghai), Xiangming Zeng (Shanghai), Longfei Hao (Shanghai), Jing Guo (Shanghai), Min Li (Shanghai), Gang Wang (Shanghai), Xiaoqiang Lei (Shanghai), Bingchang Wu (Shanghai), Dabin Wu (Shanghai), Hongwei Wu (Shanghai) and Haibo Huang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC circuit breaker device is provided, including: a circuit breaker module including a first circuit breaker and a second circuit breaker connected in series with th...