US Patent Issued to Span.IO on March 31 for "Electrical panelboard with integrated arc fault protection" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,558, issued on March 31, was assigned to Span.IO Inc. (San Francisco).

"Electrical panelboard with integrated arc fault protection" was invented by Aleksandar Daniel Oleg Rivin (Boulder, Colo.) and Ian Casimir Dimen (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure concern the integration of AFCI protection into the electrical panel itself. An electrical panelboard includes a main terminal that receives a supply of electricity, multiple terminals to supply electricity to branch circuits, and a bus structure that distributes the electricity from the main terminal to the branch circuit terminals. The branch c...