ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,765, issued on April 7, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Circuit breaker unit" was invented by Rainer Gietl (Regenstauf, Germany) and Martin Gotzenberger (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a circuit breaker unit having a circuit breaker for connection of at least two electrical networks. The circuit breaker unit has a control unit for monitoring voltages of the networks and/or at least one current through the circuit breaker. In the event of one of the fault scenarios, overvoltage or undervoltage in one of the networks or overcurrent across the circuit breake...