US Patent Issued to Hubbell on Sept. 9 for "Shallow electrical protection device (GFCI, AFCI, and AFCI/GFCI) system and method" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,027, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).

"Shallow electrical protection device (GFCI, AFCI, and AFCI/GFCI) system and method" was invented by David Ridgeway (Milford, Conn.) and Kenny Padro (Hamden, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a housing including a face plate. A device may include a plurality of sensing cores each configured to receive a current flow through a center cavity, the current flow defining a current flow direction through the center cavity, wherein the current flow direction is parallel to the face plate."

The patent was filed on Dec. 27, 2023, under Application...