US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on March 4 for "Arc mitigation apparatus and systems for panelboard applications" (South Carolina, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,122, issued on March 4, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Arc mitigation apparatus and systems for panelboard applications" was invented by Xin Zhou (Wexford, Pa.), Joe W. Kirstein (Lexington, S.C.) and William Michael Crooks (Sumter, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a housing (e.g., a housing having a form factor of a molded case circuit breaker) and at least two phase terminals supported by the housing and configured to be connected to respective ones of at least two phase buses in an electrical panelboard. The apparatus further includes at least one fault generation device supported b...