ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,955, issued on July 21, was assigned to TURK & HILLINGER GMBH (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Process for the manufacture of a mineral-insulated socket" was invented by Andreas Schlipf (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process for the manufacture of a mineral-insulated socket, especially as a module for the manufacture of an electrical feedthrough and especially for use in an exhaust gas duct of a motor vehicle. The mineral-insulated socket has a metallic inner part arranged in a metallic outer pipe and electrically insulated from this metallic outer pipe by an electrically insulating, mineral material. In a p...