US Patent Issued to NKT HV Cables on July 22 for "AC submarine power cable with reduced losses" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,991, issued on July 22, was assigned to NKT HV Cables AB (Lyckeby, Sweden).

"AC submarine power cable with reduced losses" was invented by Ola Thyrvin (Karlskrona, Sweden), Andreas Persberg (Karlskrona, Sweden), Andreas Tyrberg (Lyckeby, Sweden) and Hakan Sandell (Karlskrona, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A static AC submarine power cable configured for at least 72 kV operation including: a power core including: a conductor, an insulation system surrounding the conductor, and a smooth metallic water-blocking sheath surrounding the insulation system, wherein the metallic water-blocking sheath includes stainless steel."

The pa...