ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,784, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ellenberger & Poensgen GmbH (Altdorf, Germany).
"Circuit breaker" was invented by Hendrik-Christian Koepf (Nuremberg, Germany), Lothar Hofmeister (Neumarkt, Germany), Manuel Engewald (Nuremberg, Germany), Markus Miklis (Pfeifferhuette/ Schwarzenbruck, Germany), Ricardo Pimenta (Eckental, Germany), Michael Watzlawick (Nuremberg, Germany) and Fabian Hiereth (Lauterhofen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker having a mechanical switch introduced into a main current path, which comprises a fixed contact and a moving contact connected to a movably mounted contact bridge. The circu...