US Patent Issued to Hubbell on July 14 for "Capacitor harvester" (Alabama, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,104, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).

"Capacitor harvester" was invented by David A. Rhein (Birmingham, Ala.) and Dragan Tabakovic (Shelton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit interrupting device including a vacuum interrupter, a separable ceramic capacitor, and an insulating housing. The vacuum interrupter includes a vacuum bottle and first and second contacts disposed within the vacuum bottle. The second contact is movable relative to the first contact between a closed position and an open position. The separable ceramic capacitor is electrically connected in parallel with the vacuum int...