US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Jan. 13 for "Contactor module and contactor panel including contactor module" (North Carolina, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,678, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Contactor module and contactor panel including contactor module" was invented by Gareth P. Taylor (Indian Trail, N.C.), Timothy D. Price (Monroe, N.C.), Scott A. Baum (La Valle, Wis.), Ravi Kolakaluri (Roseville, Minn.), Vadim N. Savvateev (St. Paul, Minn.), Shannon S. Le Blanc (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Dian Zheng (Woodbury, Minn.), Brinda B. Badri (Woodbury, Minn.), Paul A. Nielsen (LaGrange, Ga.), Amitava Sengupta (Charlotte, N.C.), Michael C. Flom (Apple Valley, Minn.) and Catherine A. Leatherdale (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office:...