ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,267, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"End of life monitoring for a solid-state circuit breaker" was invented by Hugh T. Kinsel (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Arthi Sudhakar Janakiraman (Cumming, Ga.) and Scott Turner (Lilburn, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state circuit breaker comprises an air gap, at least one counter and/or a timer, a memory, a radio and a microprocessor to: retrieve saved health data, alert data and counter, timer data from the memory, determine a status of a heath rating by data and comparing the heath rating to a threshold, if it is poor, send a message via a smart p...