ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,443, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Favuseal AS (Rud, Norway).

"Method of testing the thermal performance of an object" was invented by Christian Schlytter-Henrichsen (Borgen, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the testing of the thermal performance of at least one object (6), such as an electric cable. First, at least one initial temperature curve is obtained by subjecting at least one first enclosure (1) having side walls lined with thermally insulating material to a predetermined test curve inside a first furnace (3) while monitoring the temperature inside each of the at least one first enclosure....