ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,557, issued on March 17, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Method, apparatus for operating a conduction assembly, start device, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Xiaohang Chen (Shanghai), Yangfeng Song (Shanghai), Wanlong Bai (Shanghai), Qing Ling (Shanghai), Zuoren Wu (Shanghai) and Jiamin Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, apparatus for operating a conduction assembly, a start device, and a computer-readable medium. The conduction assembly is coupled between an AC power supply and an inductive load, and comp...