US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on Oct. 14 for "Circuit protection device and system with power supply conversion and control for DC loads" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,133, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Circuit protection device and system with power supply conversion and control for DC loads" was invented by Toni Ott (Neckargemund, Germany) and Joseph Manahan (Manlius, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hazardous location compliant solid state circuit protection device (100) includes at least one solid state switching element (142a-d) and a load controller (170). The solid state switching element operates in an arc-free manner to limit or preclude electrical current flow from the line-side terminal (132) to the load-side terminal (136). The load con...