US Patent Issued to Prysmian on March 17 for "Overhead conductors with high-temperature resistant cured coatings" (Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,094, issued on March 17, was assigned to Prysmian S.p.A. (Milan).

"Overhead conductors with high-temperature resistant cured coatings" was invented by Sathish Kumar Ranganathan (Avon, Ind.), Xi Zhang (Carmel, Ind.), Timothy William Ochmann (Union, Ky.) and Donald Ray Parris (Lexington, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overhead conductor includes a bare conductor coated with a cured coating composition formed from a single-part coating dispersion. The cured coating composition includes silicon dioxide or derivatives thereof, one or more metals from Groups IA-IIIA of the periodic table, one or more acrylates, titanium dioxide, a...