ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,634, issued on July 1, was assigned to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Circuit breaker comprising an improved gas flow management" was invented by Quentin Dominique Louis Rognard (Villeurbanne, France), David Berard (Villeurbanne, France), Cyril Gregoire (Villeurbanne, France) and Jerome Laurent (Villeurbanne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-voltage circuit breaker. The high voltage circuit breaker filled with insulating gas having a main axis A, including arcing contacts and an insulating nozzle, wherein an insulating gas flowing from a storage chamber and heated by an electric arc between t...