ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,718, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Suzhou Littelfuse OVS Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"High voltage PDU design" was invented by Shangchun Pan (Suzhou, China), Du Cheng (Suzhou, China) and Renan Liu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power distribution unit includes a housing, a cover, and a gasket assembly. The housing, which holds one or more fuses, relays, cables, and busbars, includes a channel located along a perimeter of the housing. The cover is to be placed over the housing. The gasket assembly includes a gasket, multiple gasket ribs, and a gasket connector. The gasket is placed in the channel so that the gask...