ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,299, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Power disconnect system and method" was invented by Kyle Breuning Evans (Auburn, Calif.), Adam Lydecker (Mountain View, Calif.) and Alexey Nikolaev (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods herein described isolating a circuit breaker panel for a building from a grid circuit during an event disrupting the grid circuit. In one aspect, an interrupt switch system comprises a housing configured to mate with an electric meter socket on a first side and an electric meter on a second side, the housing comprising power inputs from grid power an...