ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,103, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Rapid safety switch and rapid safety switch system" was invented by Jurgen Einschenk (Panketal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rapid safety switch has a switch housing. The switch housing has six outer housing faces, including a front housing face, an open rear housing face, an upper housing face, a lower housing face, a first housing face, and a second housing face. An operating tool interface can be operated through one of the outer housing faces. The switch further includes one or more connection elements for controlling the rapid safety switch. The rapid safe...