US Patent Issued to RIPD IP DEVELOPMENT on June 3 for "Devices for overvoltage, overcurrent and arc flash protection" (Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,949, issued on June 3, was assigned to RIPD IP DEVELOPMENT LTD (Nicosia, Cyprus).

"Devices for overvoltage, overcurrent and arc flash protection" was invented by Zafiris G. Politis (Athens, Greece), Grigoris Kostakis (Athens, Greece), Thomas Tsovilis (Drama, Greece) and Kostas Bakatsias (Athens, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crowbar module includes first and second electrical terminals, a module housing, and first and second crowbar units. The first crowbar unit is disposed in the module housing and includes a first thyristor electrically connected between the first and second electrical terminals. The second crowbar unit is...