ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,699, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).
"Thomson coil design and potting process" was invented by Xin Zhou (Wexford, Pa.), Santhosh Kumar Chamarajanagar Govinda Nayaka (Moon Township, Pa.), Robert Michael Slepian (Murrysville, Pa.) and Zhixi Deng (Moon Township, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for manufacturing the insulation layer of a Thomson coil includes a base plate, a coil housing, and a cover plate. The base plate securely seats the coil housing, and the coil housing securely seats a Thomson coil and the cover plate. The cover plate has several ribs that hold multiple turn...