ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,330, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC.

"Ceramic toroidal cable trap" was invented by Edward Joseph Baus (Akron, Ohio), Richard Earl Martin (Warren, Ohio) and Jana Michelle Vincent (Aurora, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current cable trap includes a ceramic toroid body having a first end and a second end. The ceramic toroid body includes grooves disposed on a surface of the ceramic toroid body and extending between the first end and the second end. The current cable trap also includes conductive traces formed within the grooves. A method for manufacturing a current cable trap includes forming a ce...