ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,251, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).

"Portable ground fault circuit interrupter and/or arc fault circuitry interrupter and method of operating the same" was invented by Kenny Padro (Hamden, Conn.), John E. Brower (Fairfield, Conn.), Brandon Pearce (Bethany, Conn.), Antonio Di Vita (Shelton, Conn.), Matthew Jared Varney (New Britain, Conn.), William Vernon Miller III (Aldie, Va.), Joseph Michael Meady (Stratford, Conn.) and David Peck (Danbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module of an AM/PD device including a PCB and a bus bar including one or more bus bar contacts. The module further includi...