ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,182, issued on April 29, was assigned to DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH (Troisdorf, Germany).

"Initiator head with circuit board" was invented by Christian Eitschberger (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An initiator head includes a housing piece defining an interior chamber, a circuit board supported in the interior chamber, a line-in terminal coupled to the circuit board, and insulating material filling the interior chamber and covering a top surface of the circuit board for absorbing shocks or vibrations and electrically insulating electronics of the circuit board."

The patent was filed on March 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/...