ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,293, issued on July 28, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Circuit-breaker device and method" was invented by Marvin Tannhauser (Hausen, Germany), Dominic Malane (Eichstatt, Germany) and Fabian Dobler (Theilenhofen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker device for protecting a low-voltage electric circuit includes a mechanical break contact unit connected in series with an electronic interruption unit. The break contact unit is switchable by opening contacts to prevent current flow or by closing the contacts to allow current flow in the low-voltage circuit. The electronic interruption unit is switchable by semic...