ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,933, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Proterial Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Surge suppression device" was invented by Tsukasa Kondo (Tokyo) and Haruyasu Komano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surge suppression device has a resistive element, a capacitor electrically connected to the resistive element, a terminal electrically connected to the opposite side of the resistive element to the side connected to the capacitor, a fixing metal bracket to be fixed to a fixing target, and a mold resin to mold the resistive element, the terminal and the fixing metal bracket. The capacitor is located away from the mold resin."
The patent was filed o...