ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,538, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"Active detection of an arc fault" was invented by Guang Yang (Johns Creek, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker for active detection of an arc fault comprises a controller and an actuator. The controller monitors a load current of one or more devices connected to the circuit breaker. The controller detects an arc-like signal in the load current and decreases power temporarily to the connected device(s) for a temporary period of time in response to detecting the arc-like signal in the load current. The controller determines whether the ar...