ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,682, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).
"Multiple-mode load protection device" was invented by Andreas Pascal Raudies (Aarau, Switzerland), Reynald Kaltenrieder (Muhen, Switzerland), Ashwinkumar Patel (Suhr, Switzerland) and Mark Roger Bjerke (Waukesha, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to multiple mode circuit and load protection devices configured to operate differently in each of the multiple modes. The protection device includes three power inputs and three corresponding power outputs. The protection device can be set to a motor prote...