ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,477, issued on April 15, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Electrical network" was invented by Shivansh Batra (Schwieberdingen, Germany) and Thomas Beckert (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical network includes feed-in means, loads, and a distribution network located therebetween which includes at least one dynamic isolator and busbars. The feed-in means and the loads together with associated busbars are disposed in groups which can be electrically interconnected or disconnected by the at least one dynamic isolator. The at least one dynamic isolator monitors the voltage on the busbars adjacent thereto fo...