ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,276, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).
"Conductor assembly" was invented by Thomas Chyla (Berlin), Armin Grund (Berlin), Karsten Hatz (Berlin) and Ralf Rossler (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductor assembly includes an electrical conductor, a surge arrester which has a longitudinal direction, an operating state in which the surge arrester is configured to limit an overvoltage occurring in the electrical conductor, and a test state in which the surge arrester is not configured to limit the overvoltage. An electrically insulating support is disposed between the surge arrester ...