US Patent Issued to NKT HV Cables on Sept. 30 for "Rigid submarine power cable joint" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,696, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NKT HV Cables AB (Lyckeby, Switzerland).

"Rigid submarine power cable joint" was invented by Erik Eriksson (Vaxjo, Sweden), Andreas Tyrberg (Lyckeby, Sweden) and Bjorn Zettervall (Nattraby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rigid submarine power cable joint including: an outer casing having a first axial end face and a second axial end face at an opposite axial end of the outer casing relative to the first axial end face, wherein the first axial end face includes a single opening configured to receive a multi-core dynamic submarine power cable, and wherein the second axial end face incl...