US Patent Issued to DEHN on June 30 for "Arc flash protection glove" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,147, issued on June 30, was assigned to DEHN SE (Neumarkt i.d. OPf, Germany).

"Arc flash protection glove" was invented by Andrea Ilsitz (Neumarkt, Germany), Rainer Ziehmer (Fuldatal, Germany) and Johannes Pirkl (Pilsach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an arc fault protective glove for the protection against the thermal effects of an arc fault, wherein the arc fault protective glove includes a palm section which is assigned to a palm when the arc fault protective glove is worn, and a glove back opposite to the palm section, which is assigned to the back of a hand when the arc fault protective glove is...