ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,817, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).
"Fabrication of printed fuse" was invented by Robert S. Douglass (Wildwood, Mo.), John Trublowski (Troy, Mich.), Rajen Modi (Senoia, Ga.), Nilay Mehta (Peachtree City, Ga.) and Venkat Raman Thenkarai Narayanan (Prague).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power fuse for protecting an electrical load subject to transient load current cycling events in a direct current electrical power system is provided. The power fuse includes at least one fuse element assembly that includes one or more substrates, one or more sets of weak spots, and a conductor. The weak spots...