US Patent Issued to Hubbell on July 15 for "Spark gap assembly for overvoltage protection and surge arrester" (Ohio, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,542, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).

"Spark gap assembly for overvoltage protection and surge arrester" was invented by Stephen Franklin Poterala (Aiken, S.C.), Bastiaan Hubertus van Besouw (Strongsville, Ohio) and Sidharth Suresh Iyer (Wadsworth, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spark gap assembly that includes a first spark gap segment and a second spark gap segment electrically connected in series with the first spark gap segment. The first spark gap includes a first spark gap and a first grading circuit electrically connected in parallel with the first spark gap. The second spark gap segment...