US Patent Issued to Rockwell Automation Technologies on March 4 for "Rotary lockout tagout latch system" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,704, issued on March 4, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Rotary lockout tagout latch system" was invented by Shawn Cloran (Wauwatosa, Wis.) and Darrell Filtz (Cedarburg, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latch system for an electrical equipment enclosure includes a chassis and a latch arm, engaged with a circuit breaker, that moves between first, second, and intermediate arm positions. A handle operatively connected to the circuit breaker is movable between ON, TRIP, OFF, and RESET handle positions. The handle is operatively connected to the latch arm such that the latch arm is posi...