ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,541, issued on May 5, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Insulating-material housing and compact circuit breaker" was invented by Wolfgang Leitl (Wenzenbach, Germany) and Tobias Sturm (Wiesent, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insulating-material housing has first and second current path region next to each other and each having a first receiving space for a short-circuit tripping apparatus, a second receiving space for a switching contact and a third receiving space for an arc-quenching apparatus. The two first receiving spaces are arranged in a front side and a respective narrow side of the housing. The two second receivi...