ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,548, issued on March 3, was assigned to Zonit Structured Solutions LLC (Boulder, Colo.).
"Accelerated motion relay" was invented by Steve Chapel (Iliff, Colo.) and William Pachoud (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical relay (2) includes an electromagnetic drive system for providing bi-directional drive. The electrical relay (2) includes a first a coil (212) and a second coil (213). A current is supplied to the coils (212) and (213) in opposite directions. The two coils (212) and (213) can be used to accelerate the armature in either direction in relation to the two contacts. This can be used to drive the armatu...