US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry on May 27 for "Solid-state circuit breaker having a sealed vacuum gap section for providing an intrinsic safe operation" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,095, issued on May 27, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Solid-state circuit breaker having a sealed vacuum gap section for providing an intrinsic safe operation" was invented by Guang Yang (Johns Creek, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state circuit breaker comprises a sensing and control circuit configured to realize designed functions, a power electronics section that includes solid-state switching components for normal operations and a vacuum gap section that includes a sealed vacuum tube. The vacuum gap section is disposed in series with the power electronics section. The vacuum gap section is c...