ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,177, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to LATELEC (Toulose, France).

"Aircraft cable raceway and electrical barrier device" was invented by Jay Nicholas (Llantrissant, Great Britain) and Streeghosh Vinayan Sudha (Leipzig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical barrier device (8) for an aircraft cable raceway, designed to be positioned where two profile sections (1, 2) meet, and including: at least one bottom-wall bridging base; at least one dielectric panel running transversely to the bottom-wall bridging base and with the bottom-wall bridging base delimiting a passage for cables; a translation-limiting stop fixed to a di...