ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,277, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG (Uberlingen, Germany).

"Marx generator with fluid cooling and gas space for spark gaps" was invented by Jurgen Urban (Erlangen, Germany), Josef Dommer (Nuremberg, Germany), Christian Bickes (Rothenbach an der Pegnitz, Germany) and Victor Kadetov (Rothenbach an der Pegnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Marx configuration has a housing surrounding an interior, and a Marx generator arranged in the interior. The Marx generator has a plurality of capacitor stages connected in series, each having at least one first and one second voltage terminal, and respective ...