ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,452, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Circuit breaker device and method" was invented by Fabian Dobler (Theilenhofen, Germany), Christopher Fromme (Furth, Germany), Dominic Malane (Eichstatt, Germany) and Marvin Tannhauser (Hausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker device for protection of an electrical low-voltage circuit determines the voltage level of the low-voltage circuit in such a way that current voltage values are provided and current threshold values are provided. The current voltage values are compared with the current threshold values in terms of phase angle in such a way tha...