ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,516, issued on July 29, was assigned to ABB S.P.A. (Milan).

"Adjustment mechanism for circuit breaker and corresponding circuit breaker" was invented by Wensheng Liu (Guangdong, China), Jiancheng Ren (Guangdong, China), Qi Zhou (Guangdong, China) and Yanfang Ye (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustment mechanism for a circuit breaker and the corresponding circuit breaker. The adjustment mechanism includes a pin adapted to move with respect to a base part of the circuit breaker along a predefined path; a first linkage coupled to the base part and adapted to drive a first terminal of the circuit breaker to move tow...