ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,951, issued on June 3, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Circuit breaker device and method" was invented by Marvin Tannhauser (Hausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker has line-side terminals and load-side terminals for conductors of a low-voltage circuit. A mechanical break contact system is connected to the line-side terminals for indirect-coupling of the low-voltage circuit, and the other end of the break contact system is connected to an electronic interruption unit which has, by use of semiconductor-based switching elements, a high-impedance state of the switching elements to prevent current from flowi...