ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,914, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HSP Hochspannungsgerate GmbH (Troisdorf, Germany).

"Compensation block for air-core reactors and transformers" was invented by Peter Griebler (Hargelsberg, Austria), Klaus Pointner (Linz, Austria) and Helmut Reisinger (St. Georgen/Gusen, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compensation block for air-core inductors or transformers is formed as a sandwich structure. The sandwich structure of the compensation block includes an upper insulating material block, a lower insulating material block, and an elastomer block arranged between the upper and lower insulating material blocks. The novel comp...