US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on May 27 for "Modular solid-state circuit breaker" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,091, issued on May 27, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Modular solid-state circuit breaker" was invented by Piranavan Suntharalingam (Menomonee Falls, Wis.), Armen Baronian (Toronto) and Andrew Rockhill (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state circuit breaker for a DC system includes a switching module having a first terminal detachably connectable to a DC power source and a second terminal detachably connectable to a load. The switching module has a predetermined plurality of solid-state switches connected in parallel between the first and second terminals. An energy absorbing module has a...