ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,258, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Circuit breaker" was invented by Marvin Tannhauser (Hausen, Germany), Manfred Heindl (Alteglofsheim, Germany) and Jorg Hussmann (Neumarkt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker protects an electric low-voltage circuit. The circuit breaker has a housing with grid-side connections and load-side connections for conductors of the low-voltage circuit and a series circuit containing a mechanical separating contact unit and an electronic interruption unit. The separating contact unit is paired with the grid-side connections, and the interruption unit is paired ...