US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric USA on Sept. 8 for "Current transformer assemblies" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,727, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Schneider Electric USA Inc. (Boston).

"Current transformer assemblies" was invented by Kenneth Riehl (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Juan Ignacio Melecio (North Liberty, Iowa) and Jeremy D. Schroeder (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current transformer for a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) can include a core having a closed loop shape having a first side, a second side, and a core opening, and a sense coil wrapped around the core configured to magnetically couple to a plurality of conductors passing through the core opening. The current transformer can include a first magnetic...