ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,403, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).
"Method for actuating an electromechanical switching element" was invented by Elmar Schaper (Lugde, Germany) and Fabian Winkel (Paderborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for actuating an electromechanical switching element including a plurality of contacts, a coil with an iron core, and an armature includes: in the event that a predefined condition is fulfilled, in a switch-off process pulsing on and off or in the switch-on process pulsing off and on of the switching element is carried out repeatedly at a predefined time with...