ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,494, issued on March 25, was assigned to DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Electrical apparatus having one or more sensors on power-conducting and/or power-switching elements around which a fluid flows" was invented by Sebastian Wachter (Pressig, Germany) and Patrick Fuchs (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical apparatus, including a first housing having a fluid-filled or fluid-perfused wet space and a dry space that are separated from one another by a wall, wherein the wall includes an opening, one or more power-conducting and/or power-switching elements arranged in the wet space, and a con...