US Patent Issued to Champion Power Equipment on April 22 for "Standby generator control and access panel" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,610, issued on April 22, was assigned to Champion Power Equipment Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Standby generator control and access panel" was invented by Mark J. Sarder (Waukesha, Wis.), Russell J. Dopke (Elkhart Lake, Wis.), Hiroaki Sato (Brookfield, Wis.) and Leigh A. Jenison (Hartland, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a standby generator includes a control box mountable in a standby generator enclosure, a control panel, one or more linkage mechanisms coupling the control panel to the control box such that the control panel is selectively openable to provide access into the control box, and one or more generator contr...