US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on Dec. 30 for "Electrical switching apparatus and trip assembly therefor" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,288, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Electrical switching apparatus and trip assembly therefor" was invented by Jeffrey S. Gibson (Hookstown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trip assembly is for an electrical switching apparatus. The electrical switching apparatus has a base, a pair of separable contacts, and a trip bar structured to cooperate with the separable contacts in order to trip open the separable contacts. The trip assembly includes a housing member structured to be coupled to the base, and an lockout assembly having an actuation member and a locking member each coupled to the...