US Patent Issued to University of Tennessee Research Foundation on July 14 for "Modular solid-state circuit breaker including integrated switch and voltage-clamping elements" (Tennessee, North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,380, issued on July 14, was assigned to University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Modular solid-state circuit breaker including integrated switch and voltage-clamping elements" was invented by Fei Wang (Knoxville, Tenn.), Hua Bai (Knoxville, Tenn.), Ruirui Chen (Knoxville, Tenn.), Zhou Dong (Raleigh, N.C.) and Zhe Yang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) module includes a module housing comprising a heatsink and having a plurality of fins extending therefrom configured to dissipate heat; and a circuit breaker circuit comprising at least one semiconductor switch ...