US Patent Issued to CITEL on March 31 for "Gas-filled spark gap with high follow current extinction capacity" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,549, issued on March 31, was assigned to CITEL (Paris).

"Gas-filled spark gap with high follow current extinction capacity" was invented by Cong Duc Pham (Reims, France), Yves Gannac (Reims, France), Vincent Crevenat (Reims, France) and Vincent Lepauw (Reims, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas-filled spark gap for the protection of an electrical installation includes a gastight casing and two elongate electrodes delimiting between them an inter-electrode space. The inter-electrode space includes successively a striking chamber and an arc-extinguishing chamber for extinguishing the electrical arc. The arc-extinguishing chamb...