ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,793, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to XIAMEN SET ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).

"Surge protection device (SPD) with double-trip mechanism" was invented by Jian Ye (Xiamen, China) and Xianggui Zhang (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surge protection device (SPD) with a double-trip mechanism includes two trip structures on a frame, where the two trip structures are respectively a first trip structure and a second trip structure; the first trip structure includes a slider and a first tension spring; the first tension spring includes one end connected to the frame, and the other end connected to the slider; the sec...