US Patent Issued to Tower Manufacturing on May 6 for "High frequency resistant nuisance tripping GFCI and with self-test and end of life (STEOL) circuits" (Rhode Island Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,475, issued on May 6, was assigned to Tower Manufacturing Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"High frequency resistant nuisance tripping GFCI and with self-test and end of life (STEOL) circuits" was invented by Victor V Aromin (West Warwick, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A High Frequency ground fault circuit interrupter (HF-GFCI) resistant to high frequency nuisance tripping with end-of-life self-testing is provided. The HF GFCI includes a circuit breaker and a relay circuit for controlling the circuit breaker. The HF-GFCI also includes a fault detecting circuit and latch circuit. Also provided is an isolation circuit for isolating the l...