ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,838, issued on July 29.
"Intelligent high-power GFCI plug" was invented by Pan Lin (Wenzhou, China) and Jinfeng Chen (Wenzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an intelligent high-power ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) plug. The plug includes a leakage detection device, a driving device and a printed circuit board (PCB), where when the leakage detection device detects leakage, the driving device acts to disconnect a circuit. The driving device includes a coil and a driving rod, a current is input the coil, and the driving rod is driven to act, such that a moving contact is in communication with or disconnected...