ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,999, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Switch arrangement and method for operating a switch arrangement" was invented by Thomas Hintze (Falkensee, Germany), Martin Bindrich (Berlin), Detlef Schwope (Berlin), Malte Georg Hirte (Petershagen, Germany), Mario Schafer (Potsdam, Germany) and Stefan Lecheler (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch arrangement has a vacuum switch device with a movable contact and a fixed contact. A magnet drive with at least one coil is configured, in the connected state, to exert an attractive force on an armature and to move it. A transmission mechanism is configured to conve...