ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,421, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Bushing with electrically conductive head mounted on condenser core" was invented by Jan Czyzewski (Cracow, Poland), Krzysztof Kasza (Cracow, Poland), Jedrzej Banaszczyk (Lodz, Poland), Andrzej Rybak (Cracow, Poland) and Lukasz Matysiak (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a bushing including an electrical conductor comprising a terminal at a first end of the bushing. The bushing also includes an electrically insulating condenser core arranged around the conductor and defining a central longitudinal through...