ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,430, issued on March 25, was assigned to FUZETEC TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Composite circuit protection device" was invented by Jack Jih-Sang Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chang Hung Jiang (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite circuit protection device includes a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) component, first and second conductive leads, a solder and a diode component that is connected to the PTC component through the solder. The solder includes a first alloy material having a first melting point, and a second alloy material having a second melting point that is lower than the first...