US Patent Issued to ABB on July 15 for "Low voltage switch pole" (Swiss, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,113, issued on July 15, was assigned to ABB S.p.A. (Milan).

"Low voltage switch pole" was invented by Pierantonio Arrighetti (Bossico, Italy), Pierre Corfdir (Wettingen, Switzerland), Markus Abplanalp (Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland) and Ralf-Patrick Suetterlin (Baden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch pole for a low voltage switching device including an insulating casing defining an internal space with a contact area and an arc extinguishing area of said switch pole, a fixed contact assembly and a movable contact assembly positioned in said contact area and including, respectively, one or more fixed contacts and one or...