US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric Industries on Feb. 3 for "Semi-conductor circuit breaker with overvoltage protection" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,435, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Semi-conductor circuit breaker with overvoltage protection" was invented by Eric Domejean (Voreppe, France) and Jerome Brenguier (L'Albenc, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical circuit breaker with overvoltage protection includes a pair of connection terminals, a main semiconductor switch including at least one semiconductor component and a pair of separable contacts forming a disconnector connected in series with the main semiconductor switch between the connection terminals. The electrical circuit breaker also includes...