US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on Sept. 29 for "Electrical contact system with liquid metal layer and diffusion barrier" (Czech, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,631, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Electrical contact system with liquid metal layer and diffusion barrier" was invented by Stanislav Kadlec (Prague), Sandy Omar Jimenez (Coraopolis, Pa.), Christian Ruempler (Bonn, Germany) and Mykhailo Gnybida (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical contact system includes a first contact, a first diffusion layer disposed on the first contact, a first liquid metal layer disposed on the first diffusion layer, a second contact, a second diffusion layer disposed on the second contact, and a second liquid metal layer disposed on the second diff...