US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on May 13 for "Solenoid driver for a circuit breaker" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,452, issued on May 13, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Solenoid driver for a circuit breaker" was invented by Harish Gode (Pune, India), David Walter Brooking (New Galilee, Pa.), Theodore James Miller (McDonald, Pa.) and Sapana Darekar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solenoid driver circuit for a circuit breaker is provided. The circuit breaker includes a control circuit, a solenoid and secondary contacts and is structured to be coupled between a power source and a load. The solenoid driver circuit includes a first switch coupled to a solenoid and a first resistor structured to sense solenoid cur...