ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,745, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SCHOTT AG (Mainz, Germany).

"Electrical feedthrough glass-metal electrodes" was invented by Helmut Hartl (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical device, having a feedthrough through a housing part which has a material thickness T of the housing of the device and is made of metal. The metal being iron, iron alloys, iron-nickel alloys, iron-nickel-cobalt alloys, KOVAR, steel, high-grade steel, aluminum, aluminum alloys, AlSiC, magnesium, magnesium alloys, titanium or titanium alloys. The housing part having at least one opening, wherein the opening receives a contact element, being...