ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,951, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to WEINERT INDUSTRIES AG (Foritztal, Germany).
"Sensing device" was invented by Hakan Sayinc (Berlin), Oliver Gross (Berlin), Juntao Deng (Jiangsu, China) and Wei Lu (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing device (10) for a high voltage disconnecting switch (20). The sensing device (10) comprises: a first optical fiber (110) configured to receive light from an optical source (100) and configured to guide the light; an optical collimator (120) coupled to the first optical fiber (110) to receive the light guided in the first optical fiber (110) and configured to collimate the light in...