ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,316, issued on May 26, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Circuit breaker and method" was invented by Marvin Tannhauser (Hausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker protects an electric low-voltage circuit and contains a mechanical separating contact unit, which has an open state of its contacts in order to prevent a current flow in the low-voltage circuit or a closed state of the contacts for a current flow in the low-voltage circuit, and an electronic interruption unit, which is connected in series to the mechanical separating contact unit on the circuit side and which, as a result of semiconductor-based swit...