US Patent Issued to VISION TECH on June 23 for "Electrical outlet having leakage current limiting function" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,333, issued on June 23, was assigned to VISION TECH Corp. (Busan, South Korea).

"Electrical outlet having leakage current limiting function" was invented by Ho Seok Lee (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an electrical outlet having a leakage current limiting function, in which a current leaked from a phase voltage line (R line or T line or S line) terminal of the electrical outlet may be limited by expanding an area of a neutral line (N line) terminal of an electrical outlet into which a plug of an electronic device is inserted and coupled, so that the risk of electric shock to the hu...