US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on Sept. 23 for "Thomson coil with energized coil damping" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,404, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Thomson coil with energized coil damping" was invented by Tyler Holp (Coraopolis, Pa.), Brad R. Leccia (Bethel Park, Pa.), Steven Z. Chen (Coraopolis, Pa.), Xin Zhou (Wexford, Pa.), Andrew W. Lichauer (Moon Township, Pa.), Koustubh D. Ashtekar (Coraopolis, Pa.) and Michael Slepian (Murrysville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coil-based actuators for use in opening and closing the separable contacts of circuit interrupters provide increased initial velocity for opening strokes and improved damping at the end of opening strokes by utilizing current-ba...