ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,465, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Attleboro, Mass.).

"Multi-switch contactor assembly with a pre-charge relay" was invented by Paulus Thomas Johannes Gennissen (Markelo, Netherlands), Daniele Suzzi (Gutenberg, Austria), Ernie Johannus Antonius Schoot Uiterkamp (Heeten, Netherlands) and Engbertus Berkel (Wierden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a multi-switch contactor assembly with a pre-charge system is disclosed. The multi-switch contactor further includes an array of switches and an actuator assembly configured to actuate each switch of the array of switches. In this em...