US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Jan. 20 for "High-voltage device and method for increasing the dielectric strength in the high-voltage device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,194, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"High-voltage device and method for increasing the dielectric strength in the high-voltage device" was invented by Thomas Heinz (Berlin), Dietmar Frank (Berlin), Armin Grund (Berlin), Alexander Hartung (Berlin), Martin Krehnke (Berlin) and Volker Lehmann (Treuenbrietzen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-voltage device has an encapsulation housing and at least one bushing for at least one conductor, through which a current flows, into the encapsulation housing and/or out of the encapsulation housing. At least one electrode at free potent...