US Patent Issued to Southwire on May 13 for "Method of manufacturing electrical cable, and resulting product, with reduced required installation pulling force" (Georgia, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,403, issued on May 13, was assigned to Southwire Co. LLC (Carrollton, Ga.).

"Method of manufacturing electrical cable, and resulting product, with reduced required installation pulling force" was invented by Philip Sasse (Douglasville, Ga.), Terry Chambers (Ranburne, Ala.), Randy D. Kummer (Villa Rica, Ga.), John Armstrong (Villa Rica, Ga.), David Reece (Calhoun, Ga.) and Hai Lam (Douglasville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are cable types, including a type THHN cable, the cable types having a reduced surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and insulat...