US Patent Issued to Hubbell on March 18 for "Deadfront arrester with disconnector device" (South Carolina, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,001, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).

"Deadfront arrester with disconnector device" was invented by Bastiaan Hubertus van Besouw (Strongsville, Ohio) and David Charles Hughes (Aiken, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for disconnecting a surge arrester. One embodiment provides a surge arrester comprising a housing, a connecting interface configured to connect to an electrical power grid, and a disconnector device coupled to the connecting interface. A metal oxide varistor stack is coupled to the disconnector device, and a ground side connection is coupled to the metal oxide varistor stack, ...