ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,198, issued on April 14, was assigned to SHANGHAI WAYON ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Shanghai City, China).

"Surface-mounted polymer PCT overcurrent protection element having small package size" was invented by Yong Fang (Shanghai), Kun Xia (Shanghai), Guochen Wu (Shanghai), Yang Zhou (Shanghai), Xiaoxu Hou (Shanghai) and Wei Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface-mounted polymer PTC overcurrent protection element having a small package size, comprising a PTC chip, an insulating layer (30), end electrodes (41, 42), and at least one conductive member (60). A dividing gap is designed on a first conductive electrode (21) to ...