US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on Nov. 11 for "Isolating motor control center bypass units and systems" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,230, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Isolating motor control center bypass units and systems" was invented by Robert W. Greve III (Harleysville, Pa.), Shriram Jayshankar Ghorpade (Solapur, India) and John A. Bordewick (Fayetteville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a housing, a first disconnect switch in the housing and having a first terminal configured to be coupled to a first unit (e.g., a first VFD or RVSS) external to the housing and a second disconnect switch in the housing and having first terminal configured to be couple to a second unit (e.g., a second VFD o...