ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,973, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Apparatus and method of detecting and classifying faults in circuit interrupter in microseconds" was invented by Tejal Rohan Sheth (Pune, India), Prasad Arvind Venikar (Pune, India), Sapana Darekar (Pune, India), Swapnil Dhavan (Pune, India), Machiraju Anurag Swamy (Secunderabad, India) and Ming Wu (Allison Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit interrupter is structured to electrically connect between a power source and a load. The circuit interrupter includes: separable contacts; an actuator coupled to the separable contacts and structured t...