ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,485, issued on April 15, was assigned to Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Hefei, China).

"Distributed capacitance energy absorption verification device" was invented by CaiChao Jiang (Anhui, China), Bo Liu (Anhui, China), ZhiMin Liu (Anhui, China), ShiYong Chen (Anhui, China), JunJun Pan (Anhui, China), Sheng Liu (Anhui, China) and YuanLai Xie (Anhui, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a distributed capacitance energy absorption verification device, which belongs to the field of direct-current high-voltage surge suppression. The distributed capacitance energy absorp...