ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,285, issued on June 17, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method for manufacturing a switching apparatus for electric systems" was invented by Emanuele Morelli (Azzano San Paolo, Italy), Jacopo Bruni (Caselle Lurani, Italy), Corrado Rizzi (Fornovo S. Giovanni, Italy), Giorgio Forlani (Romano di Lombardia, Italy) and Luciano Chenet (Torre Boldone, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a for manufacturing a switching apparatus for electric systems. The method includes (i) providing a first housing shell of the switching apparatus; (ii) providing a second housing shell of the swit...