US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 21 for "Circuit breaker" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,984, issued on July 21, 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 for protecting an electric low-voltage circuit has a housing with a grid-side neutral conductor connection, a grid-side phase conductor connection, and a load-side phase conductor connection for the low-voltage circuit. A mechanical isolating contact unit is connected to an electronic interruption unit in series for a phase conductor path and is paired with the load-side phase con...