ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,408, issued on May 13, was assigned to NKT HV Cables AB (Lyckeby, Sweden).
"Power cable with bimetallic conductor" was invented by Peter Friberg (Rodeby, Sweden), Robert Wayne Hobson (Cary, N.C.) and Evripidis Karatsivos (Karlskrona, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power cable includes a conductor having a first section, a second section, and a weld metal located axially between the sections. The first section includes a central element made of a first metal and an outer structure made of a second metal surrounding the central element. The second section includes the second metal. An axial end section of the first section ext...