US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric Industries on Aug. 5 for "Method for diagnosing an operating state of an electrical switching device and electrical switching device for implementing such a method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,055, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Method for diagnosing an operating state of an electrical switching device and electrical switching device for implementing such a method" was invented by Stephane Delbaere (Meylan, France), Remy Orban (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France) and Stephane Follic (Lumbin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for diagnosing an operating state of a switching device including separable contacts, which are driven by an electromagnetic actuator including a coil connected to an electronic control device, and sensors that measure a coil volta...