ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,945, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ASTOTEC AUTOMOTIVE GMBH (Hirtenberg, Austria).
"Method of making a current breaker" was invented by Wolfgang Art (Neudoerfl, Austria) and Dietmar Haba (Baden, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current breaker for automotive safety systems has a separating punch and a conductor formed with at least one localized decrease in thickness constituting a weakened separating point severable by the separating punch. This current breaker is made by overmolding the conductor in a plastic-injection mold with an encapsulation by a method having a first step of forming the separating point of the conduc...