ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,075, issued on April 15, was assigned to Littelfuse Inc. (Chicago).
"Fuse with arc suppressing mastic material" was invented by Martin G. Pineda (Fremont, Calif.), Marco Doms (Chicago), Sergio Fuentes Godinez (Newark, N.J.), Toshikazu Yamaoka (Chicago), Satoshi Sakamoto (Chicago), Hajime Takahashi (Chicago), Keiichiro Nomura (Chicago) and Werner Johler (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuse comprising including a housing, a fusible element disposed within the housing, first and second terminals extending from opposite ends of the fusible element and out of the housing, and a quantity of arc suppressing material disposed on th...