ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,596, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to DEXERIALS Corp. (Shimotsuke, Japan).
"Fuse element, fuse device and protection device" was invented by Yoshihiro Yoneda (Shimotsuke, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuse element includes: a low-melting-point metal layer; a high-melting-point metal layer provided over at least one surface of the low-melting-point metal layer; and an intermediate layer disposed between the low-melting-point metal layer and the high-melting-point metal layer. Each of the high-melting-point metal layer and the intermediate layer is made of a metal that is liquefied by contacting a molten form of the low-melt...