ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,007, issued on March 25, was assigned to DEXERIALS Corp. (Shimotsuke, Japan).
"Protection element" was invented by Yoshihiro Yoneda (Shimotsuke, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection element includes: a fuse element configured to be energized in a first direction, which is a direction from a first end portion of the fuse element to a second end portion of the fuse element; a shielding member including a plate-shaped part, configured to rotate around a rotation axis extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, wherein the plate-shaped part viewed from the fuse element is divided to a first portion an...