US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry on Oct. 20 for "Electronic circuit breaker configured to provide a fail-safe mode" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,116, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Electronic circuit breaker configured to provide a fail-safe mode" was invented by Guang Yang (Johns Creek, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic circuit breaker is configured to provide a fail-safe mode. It comprises at least one overvoltage component, a temperature sensor attached to the at least one overvoltage component and a sensing and control circuit configured to monitor temperatures of the at least one overvoltage component. There are two criteria to decide if the electronic circuit breaker should open, when either criterion is met. ...