US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Oct. 27 for "Method and apparatus for controlling a current for solid-state circuit breakers" (North Carolina, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,645, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Method and apparatus for controlling a current for solid-state circuit breakers" was invented by Fei Wang (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Zhou Dong (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solid-state circuit breakers (SSB) have a fault current limiting function that limit the fault current in power applications. It allows sustained overcurrent for a certain period while preventing the fast fault current increase in dc systems. For the conventional method of using switches alone to limit the current, the high loss results in a short w...