US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 8 for "Circuit breaker device and method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,825, issued on July 8, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Circuit breaker device and method" was invented by Marvin Tannhauser (Hausen, Germany), Dominic Malane (Eichstatt, Germany) and Fabian Dobler (Theilenhofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker device for a low-voltage circuit has a mechanical isolating contact unit connected in series with an electronic disconnection unit. The mechanical isolating contact unit is switched by opening contacts to prevent current flow or closing the contacts for current flow in the low-voltage circuit. The electronic disconnection circuit is switched by semiconductor-based ...