US Patent Issued to COMET on March 17 for "Vacuum variable capacitor having a vacuum sealed enclosure and a mechanical drive system" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,133, issued on March 17, was assigned to COMET AG (Flamatt, Switzerland).

"Vacuum variable capacitor having a vacuum sealed enclosure and a mechanical drive system" was invented by Mark Mildner (Gurbru, Switzerland) and Marco Fasel (Dudingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum variable capacitor includes a vacuum sealed enclosure to contain a vacuum dielectric medium, wherein the enclosure includes a first plate and a second plate, the first plate and the second plate being separated by an electrically insulating element, a fixed electrode attached inside the enclosure to the first plate and a movable electrode atta...