US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on May 13 for "Subsea substation system with one enclosure having separate thermal zones" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,978, issued on May 13, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Subsea substation system with one enclosure having separate thermal zones" was invented by Harald Fretheim (Aurskog, Norway), Oistein Martinsen (Baerums Verk, Norway), Stian Ingebrigtsen (Bergen, Norway) and Vitor Hugo Eiti Moritsugu (Bergen, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subsea substation system including: an oil-filled water impermeable enclosure; an AC-transformer, and at least one overcurrent device electrically connected to the AC-transformer, the at least one overcurrent device, the AC-transformer, and the electrical connections between them ...