ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,665, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Method for manufacturing a short-circuit protection device, and associated short-circuit protection device and power module" was invented by Stephane Joseph Azzopardi (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Toni Youssef (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Rabih Khazaka (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Donatien Henri Edouard Martineau (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Thanh Long Le (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a short-circuit protection device, including producing, on a first face of a first substrate, a plurality of first electrically conductive segments; p...