US Patent Issued to ABB SCHWEIZ on Nov. 11 for "Downloadable firmware for programmable circuit breakers" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,055, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Downloadable firmware for programmable circuit breakers" was invented by Cecil Rivers (Bloomfield, Conn.) and Maggie Shao (Bloomfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may determine, by a microprocessor, whether the circuit breaker is performing a task which is already in progress, wherein when the determine is that the circuit breaker is performing the task, store the second firmware data to a second location of the memory. A device may receive, by a circuit breaker, a second firmware data transmitted from a computing device, wherein the circu...