ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,597, issued on July 8, was assigned to Innomotics GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).

"Electric conductor assembly" was invented by Marco Festa (Falkensee, Germany) and Moritz Greinacher (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical conductor assembly includes an electrical conductor, an electrically insulating jacket disposed around a conductor section of the electrical conductor, an electrically conductive sleeve disposed around a first insulating jacket section of the insulating jacket, and an electrically conductive yarn for realizing an electric field control. The electrically conductive yarn is wound around a second insulating jac...