US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Oct. 20 for "Vacuum interrupter and arrangement comprising vacuum interrupters, and method for turning off vacuum interrupters" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,811, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Vacuum interrupter and arrangement comprising vacuum interrupters, and method for turning off vacuum interrupters" was invented by Paul Gregor Nikolic (Erlangen, Germany), Tobias Alexander Goebels (Issum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) and Sylvio Kosse (Coswig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum interrupter for switching voltages, in particular high voltages, has at least one sleeve casing, at least one fixed contact, and at least one movable contact. One or more control elements are arranged directly on the vacuum interrupter. An assemb...