US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on Feb. 18 for "Annunciating or power vending circuit breaker for an electric load" (Tennessee, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,083, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Annunciating or power vending circuit breaker for an electric load" was invented by Ronald L. Thompson (Knoxville, Tenn.), Jason-David Nitzberg (Cincinnati), David Austin Eldridge (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Brandon J. Rogers (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker for an electric load includes first and second terminals; a number of first separable contacts each electrically connected between one of the first terminals and one of the second terminals; a first mechanism to open, close or trip open the first contacts; a number of seco...