ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,259, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to EPEC OY (Seinajoki, Finland).

"Electrical device and method for cooling electrical device" was invented by Mika Suonmaa (Seinajoki, Finland) and Ilkka Heikkila (Seinajoki, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the solution put forth, an electrical device (1) comprises a hermetically sealed enclosure (2), at least one fuse (4) and other electrical components inside the enclosure (2), as well as a heatsink (5) outside the hermetically sealed enclosure (2). The at least one fuse (4) is connected to the heatsink (5) with heat conducting material (8). The heatsink (5) is adapted to conduct heat...