ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,106, issued on July 14, was assigned to TE Connectivity Austria GmbH (Waidhofen an der Thaya, Austria).

"Rotary-segment electromechanical system with reluctance boost" was invented by Bernd Wesely (Vienna) and Markus Gutmann (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromechanical system for an electrical switching device includes an energizing coil assembly having a first coil and a second coil each generating a magnetic field in response to an energizing current and a magnetic system providing a magnetic flux path passing along a plurality of magnetic flux lines of the magnetic field generated by the energizing coil assembly. Th...