ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,277, issued on July 28, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Switchgear" was invented by Liming Xu (Xiamen, China), Shailendra Singh (Skien, Norway), Siyuan Huang (Xiamen, China), Xingjie Chen (Xiamen, China), Liqun Huang (Xiamen, China) and Dukkaiappan Subbiah Thevar (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switchgear which includes a cable compartment enclosed by walls and a cover, and a cable connector arranged in the cable compartment. The cable connector is configured to electrically connect a cable to a cable bushing located in the cable compartment. cable connector includes a first portio...