ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,963, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Switch device for a distribution network fed by more than one independent power source" was invented by Hossein Ghassempour Aghamolki (Edina, Minn.), Swaroop Gajare (Cranberry Township, Pa.), Amal Thomas (Changanassery, India) and Amit Govind Kolge (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch device includes: a resettable switching apparatus, the resettable switching apparatus is configured control an electrical connection between a first electrical feeder of an electrical distribution network and a load; and a controller configured to: cause a te...