ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,835, issued on June 3, was assigned to NEXANS (Courbevoie, France).

"Device for detecting breakage of an electrical cable and associated operating method" was invented by Nicolas Poulin (Auchy les Mines, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (10) for detecting breakage of at least one electrical cable (12) has the at least one electrical cable (12), a wireless sensor (14) connected to the at least one electrical cable (12), and at least one power supply unit (18) supplying power to the wireless sensor (14). The at least one power supply unit (18) has a means (20) of applying a predetermined potential to the at least one elect...