US Patent Issued to CTC Global on July 21 for "Ported hardware for overhead electrical cables" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,203, issued on July 21, was assigned to CTC Global Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Ported hardware for overhead electrical cables" was invented by Xiaoyuan Dong (Irvine, Calif.), William Webb (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Ian M. Pilling (Irvine, Calif.), Douglas A. Pilling (Irvine, Calif.) and Christopher Wong (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrical line hardware such as termination arrangements and splices for use with overhead electrical cables that enable the interrogation of the overhead electrical cables through the hardware. The hardware includes at least one port to facilitate access to the strength member of the electri...