US Patent Issued to Vertiv on May 19 for "System and method for detecting a breaker trip" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,683, issued on May 19, was assigned to Vertiv Corp. (Westerville, Ohio).

"System and method for detecting a breaker trip" was invented by Kevin K. Eschhofen (Galena, Ohio) and Kevin R. Ferguson (Dublin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power distribution system may include an input power source and at least one circuit breaker associated with each branch circuit receiving power from the input power source. The power distribution system may also include a monitoring subsystem configured to detect when a line side voltage of the at least one circuit breaker is above an undervoltage fault value and when the current through the at le...