ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,050, issued on March 25, was assigned to PHILIPPE MAGNIER LLC (Houston).

"Technologies for preventing the explosion of electrical transformers" was invented by Philippe Magnier (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (10) for preventing explosions of electrical transformers including an adaptor (11) with (a) a first drilled interface (111) in a lower wall, (b) a second drilled interface (112) in an upper wall and concentric with the first drilled interface (111), and an adaptor outlet (113a) with an adaptor outlet flange (113) on the upper wall. The adaptor (11) is configured to be secured to a transformer tank outlet flang...