US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on Oct. 28 for "Circuit interrupter with tapered drive shaft section" (Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,595, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Circuit interrupter with tapered drive shaft section" was invented by Tyler Holp (Coraopolis, Pa.), Logan Dwight Weigle (McKees Rocks, Pa.), Steven Z. Chen (Coraopolis, Pa.), Santhosh Kumar Chamarajanagar Govinda Nayaka (Moon Township, Pa.), Robert Michael Slepian (Murrysville, Pa.), Hongbin Wang (Novi, Mich.), Brian J. Schaltenbrand (Pittsburgh) and Eric D. Smith (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit interrupter includes separable contacts, a drive shaft coupled to the separable contacts and structured to move to open and close the...