ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,629, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Contact system having reliable insulation" was invented by Volker Muller (Numberg, Germany) and Stephan Neugebauer (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact system includes a support body, a heat sink configured to contact the support body in an electrically insulated and/or heat-conducting manner, and an electrically insulating layer arranged between the heat sink and the support body. The heat sink has a first surface which is embodied substantially as a flat area and formed with a recess in a region intended for contacting a periphery of a contact area...