ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,296, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KEMET Electronics Portugal S.A. (Evora, Portugal).

"Electrical feed-through of an electrolytic capacitor" was invented by Bernd Pretzlaff (Mildstedt, Germany) and Janosch Lichtenberger (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates, amongst others, to a feedthrough pin of an electrolytic capacitor for contacting an electrode of the electrolytic capacitor and providing an electrical contact of the electrolytic capacitor on an outside of the electrolytic capacitor, the feed-through pin comprising a longitudinally extending body. According to an aspect of the invention, a ...