US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on May 27 for "Breaker control units and related systems and methods" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,112, issued on May 27, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Breaker control units and related systems and methods" was invented by Ritwik Chowdhury (Charlotte, N.C.), Dale S. Finney (Little Bras D'or, Canada) and Normann Fischer (Colfax, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Breaker control units (BCUs) may include an output to selectively cause a circuit breaker (CB) to open and close a circuit, a voltage input to monitor a voltage of at least one of a bus and a line, a processor to calculate a point-on-wave switching time, and a remote input configured to be coupled to a remote intelligent elec...