US Patent Issued to G & W Electric on Dec. 9 for "Temperature-compensated interrupter firing circuit" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,631, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to G & W Electric Co. (Bolingbrook, Ill.).

"Temperature-compensated interrupter firing circuit" was invented by Blair S. Kerr (Downers Grove, Ill.), Allen David Steinberg (St. Charles, Ill.), Nicholas Jackson Emerson (Addison, Ill.) and Bernardo Hasbach Covian (Romeoville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a circuit interrupter includes a bus bar configured to conduct a current. The bus bar is configured to connect to an electrical grid. The circuit interrupter includes a bus bar cutter configured to sever the bus bar, a resistance-temperature-coefficient (RTC) circuit configured t...