ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,563, issued on May 13, was assigned to PRYSMIAN S.p.A. (Milan).

"Joint assembly for power cables having an optical fiber cable embedded at different radial positions, joint system and method for installing such a joint assembly" was invented by Alessandro Trolli (Cavenago di Brianza, Italy), Fabio D'Esposito (Meta di Sorrento, Italy), Dario Bazzoli (Milan) and Enrico Maria Consonni (Seregno, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Joint assembly for a first and a second power cables each comprising at least one optical fiber cable at a radial position different in the first and second power cables, the joint assembly comprising a two-ha...