ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,807, issued on April 22, was assigned to Innomotics GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).
"Bidirectional electronic circuit breaker" was invented by Benno Weis (Hemhofen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic protection switch includes first and second network terminals and two semiconductor switches of same kind. Each semiconductor switch is formed by an IGBT semiconductor switch and includes a switching element and a diode which is arranged antiparallel to the switching element. A first of the two semiconductor switches is arranged without a semiconductor series connection between a positive potential terminal of the first netwo...