US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on June 17 for "Hazardous environment electrical feedback barrier device, assembly, system and method" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,673, issued on June 17, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Hazardous environment electrical feedback barrier device, assembly, system and method" was invented by Paul R. York (Ellalong, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical feedback barrier is configured to safely interconnect an intrinsically safe power supply to a non-intrinsically safe electrical load device in a hazardous environment. Electrical feedback from the non-intrinsically electrical load device is blocked by the electrical feedback barrier to protect the intrinsically safe power supply from adverse operating conditions. The electrica...