ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,995, issued on June 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Grounding device, grounding method, and program recording medium" was invented by Yoshinari Takigawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide a grounding device and the like which can suppress generation of heat generated due to a rush current when a feed line is grounded, a grounding device according to the present invention comprises: an in-submarine-apparatus feed line which is installed in a submarine apparatus and which supplies power to an electrical component in the submarine apparatus; a determination means for determining whether or not the temperat...