US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on Oct. 7 for "Hybrid circuit breaker with a vacuum interrupter" (Indian, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,944, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Hybrid circuit breaker with a vacuum interrupter" was invented by Mahesh Varrier (Perambra, India), Tanmay Pralhad Tamboli (Hadapsar, India) and Matthias Katzensteiner (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid circuit breaker is disclosed, which comprises an input connector for a power grid, an output connector for a load and a current path in-between. Furthermore, the hybrid circuit breaker comprises an electro-mechanical bypass switch being arranged in the current path and a semiconductor circuit in parallel with the electro-mechanical bypass switch...