ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,974, issued on April 29, was assigned to VALEO AUTOMOTIVE AIR CONDITIONING HUBEI Co. LTD (Hubei, China).

"Over-current protection system" was invented by Qiaozheng Wu (Hubei, China), Fei Liu (Hubei, China) and Xiaohui Liu (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention herein provides an over-current protection system. The over-current protection system includes a sensing device, a comparator, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The sensing device is adapted to sense current flowing to an electrical device. The comparator is adapted to compare a signal received from the sensing device and a reference signal to gene...