ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,045, issued on June 30, was assigned to SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES CHANGZHOU Co. LTD. (Changzhou, China).
"Circuit breaker" was invented by Jigang Xu (Changzhou, China), Wei Sun (Changzhou, China), Jim Ji (Changzhou, China) and Felix Zhang (Changzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a circuit breaker comprising: a housing defining an operating chamber and an arc extinguishing chamber; a severing mechanism provided in the operating chamber and comprising a punch, the severing mechanism being configured to sever via the punch a conductor extending through the housing between the operating chamber and th...