ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,660, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Littelfuse Inc. (Chicago).

"Fuse assembly using coated wound wire and sacrificial core" was invented by Keon Mayson Brosas (Laguna, Philippines), Marko Arciaga (Malvar, Philippines), Victor Oliver Tabell (San Pablo, Philippines) and Irian A. Chua (Santo Tomas, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuse assembly includes a housing and a wound wire operable as a fusible element. The housing has a cavity for the fusible element. The fusible element is formed by coating a wire with enamel and wrapping the wire around a core to produce enamel-coated wound wire. The enamel-coated wound wire is...