US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Feb. 17 for "Assembly comprising a disconnecting device for a surge-arresting device" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,708, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Assembly comprising a disconnecting device for a surge-arresting device" was invented by Bernd Kruska (Berlin), Bi Xue Liu (Jiangsu, China), Arkadz Petchanka (Berlin), Frank Reichert (Weissenfels, Germany) and Ralf Rossler (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly contains a disconnecting device for a surge-arresting device. A first contact and a second contact of the disconnecting device are connected by a first path having a switching element which can be thermally tripped. A second path is disposed electrically in parallel with the firs...