US Patent Issued to Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College on Oct. 7 for "Bipolar hybrid circuit breaker for low-voltage DC circuits" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,942, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, La.).

"Bipolar hybrid circuit breaker for low-voltage DC circuits" was invented by Shahab Mehraeen (Baton Rouge, La.), Sudipta Sen (Baton Rouge, La.), Mohammadamin Moghbeli (Baton Rouge, La.) and David Rush (Baton Rouge, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC circuit breaker system includes a first mechanical switch, a first parallel capacitor connecting a first terminal and a second terminal of the first mechanical switch, a second mechanical switch in series with the first mechanical switch...