US Patent Issued to DEHN on Nov. 11 for "Overvoltage protection device and use of an overvoltage protection device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,059, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DEHN SE (Neumarkt i.d.OPf., Germany).

"Overvoltage protection device and use of an overvoltage protection device" was invented by Peter Zahlmann (Neumarkt, Germany), Ralph Brocke (Ilmenau/Oberporlitz, Germany), Helmut Hirschmann (Berg, Germany) and Edmund Zauner (Berching/Pollanten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a surge protection apparatus (10) for protecting an electrical installation against transient overvoltages, having a voltage-limiting protection component (18) and additionally a voltage-switching protection component (20). The voltage-limiting protecti...