ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,132, issued on March 4, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Circuit breaker device and method" was invented by Fabian Dobler (Theilenhofen, Germany), Christopher Fromme (Furth, Germany), Dominic Malane (Eichstatt, Germany) and Marvin Tannhauser (Hausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit breaker device protects an electric low-voltage current circuit. A level of a voltage of a low-voltage current circuit is ascertained such that ascertained voltage values are provided. A differential voltage is ascertained from the ascertained voltage values and an expected value of the voltage such that differential voltage values ar...