ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,582, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Multi-part moving shaft assembly for ultra high speed actuator used in a hybrid circuit breaker" was invented by Jayaraman Muniyappan (Pernambut, India), Robert Michael Slepian (Murrysville, Pa.) and Santhosh Kumar Chamarajanagar Govinda Nayaka (Moon Township, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-part assemblies for driving a movable conductor away from a stationary conductor of a circuit interrupter decrease separable contact opening time by reducing the number of components that must travel during an initial stage of an opening stroke to achieve an ...