US Patent Issued to Hitachi Energy on March 31 for "Socket" (Polish, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,553, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Socket" was invented by Sergey Pancheshnyi (Zurich, Switzerland) and Jan Czyzewski (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A socket, connectable to a plug-in device, wherein the plug-in device is a bushing and/or a plug-in cable termination, is described. The socket includes a current conduction path and a field control unit. The field control unit includes a layer arrangement with at least three conductive layers arranged around the current conduction path and separated by an insulating material."

The patent was filed on May 4, 2021, under A...