US Patent Issued to NKT HV Cables on June 30 for "Profile wire conductor and a power cable" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,011, issued on June 30, was assigned to NKT HV Cables AB (Lyckeby, Sweden).

"Profile wire conductor and a power cable" was invented by Kristian Gustafsson (Karlskrona, Sweden) and Tommy Johansson (Brakne-Hoby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A profile wire conductor for an electric power cable has a central longitudinal axis and includes stranded individual profile wires arranged in concentric wire layers around the central longitudinal axis. The concentric wire layers include an inner wire layer of profile wires of a first type having a first radial cross sectional geometry, and an outermost wire layer of profile wires forming...