ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,721, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Schneider Electric (China) Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Solid-state circuit breaker and its self-test method" was invented by Feng Lu (Beijing), Haijun Zhao (Beijing), Jiamin Chen (Beijing) and Jialu Bai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a solid-state circuit breaker and its self-test method. The solid-state circuit breaker comprises an input end and an output end, the input end being adapted to be connected to a mechanical switch; a first switching device connected between the input end and a first node; a second switching ...