ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,056, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to XIAMEN SET ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).
"Modular surge protection device (SPD)" was invented by Lianqiao You (Xiamen, China), Xianggui Zhang (Xiamen, China) and Anping Cao (Xiamen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular surge protection device (SPD) is provided. The modular SPD includes an overvoltage protection component, and a trip mechanism for disconnecting the SPD, where the overvoltage protection component is provided with a pin electrode; the overvoltage protection component includes a voltage switching element; and the trip mechanism is provided on the voltage switching...