ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,381, issued on March 17, was assigned to RIPD IP DEVELOPMENT LTD (Strovolos, Cyprus).

"Overvoltage protection device modules and sheath bonding systems including same" was invented by George Peppas (Attica, Greece), Michail Pitsikalis (Santorini, Greece), Alexis Chorozoglou (Drama, Greece) and Panagiotis Raptis (Drama, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surge protective device includes a link box including a plurality of connectors and one or more sheath voltage limiter (SVL) circuits. The plurality of connectors are configured to interface with a plurality of cables, each of the plurality of cables including an inner conductor...