ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,633, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Control device, and switching device" was invented by Naoki Shimizu (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus is provided, comprising a protecting unit configured to perform, in response to short circuit occurring in a main switching device, protection operation to restrict current flowing through the main switching device, and a protection operation control unit configured to cause the protecting unit to continue the protection operation until power supply to a driving control unit for performing drive control of the main swit...