US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric Industries on Sept. 1 for "Process for detection of degradation of a switching device comprising an electromagnetic actuator" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,072, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Process for detection of degradation of a switching device comprising an electromagnetic actuator" was invented by Jean-Pierre Meley (Saint Ismier, France), Diana El Khoury (Grenoble, France) and Diego Alberto (Corenc, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for detecting degradation of a switching device including an electromagnetic actuator configured to unlock a control mechanism including an elastic member. The process includes: (i) commanding the electromagnetic actuator, (ii) measuring an electrical current circulating ...