ECN Forum Forums Code Related Discussion NEC & other Code issues Hmmm....the elusive AFCI device???

I didn't read the OP thoroughly enough. Yes, AFCI's in general have been discussed enough.
To the point, in an Eaton seminar yesterday, the class was told that P&S had a patent on an AFCI device but that no actual product existed (other than prototypes)and none was currently planned, and that the same was true of Eaton/CH. Production is stalled by uncertainty over the adaptation of the code change mentioned by the OP'er. All of this info is at least 3rd hand.