ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,288, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil-Malmaison, France).
"Electrical protection device" was invented by Eric Domejean (Voreppe, France) and Emmanuel Frangin (Grenoble, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical protection device including main electrical contacts, a switching mechanism, a solid-state power switch connected in series with the main electrical contacts, a safety device connected in parallel with the main electrical contacts, the safety device including secondary electrical contacts, and a control unit, the control unit being adapted to control the power switch and the...