ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,460, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SWITCHLAB INC. (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Switchlab (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai City, China) and GAOCHENG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Three-stage control mechanism of explosion-proof switch" was invented by Chih-Yuan Wu (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Wen-Bing Hsu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-stage control mechanism of an explosion-proof switch has a rotating unit and an interconnecting unit. The rotating unit has a first drive portion and a second drive portion that are selectively operated and reciprocated. The interconnecting unit includes a re...