US Patent Issued to Siemens on March 17 for "Connector for a circuit breaker and a downstream contactor, feeder with such a connector and arrangement with such a feeder" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,139, issued on March 17, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Connector for a circuit breaker and a downstream contactor, feeder with such a connector and arrangement with such a feeder" was invented by Martin Bodenmeier (Parkstein, Germany), Tobias Kemptner (Fensterbach, Germany) and Martin Steinbauer (Schmidmuhlen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector for a circuit breaker and a downstream contactor has a one-piece configuration and facilitates an electrical connection between the circuit breaker and the downstream contactor. The connector includes at least one sensor, the connector includes an evaluation unit for m...