ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,499, issued on April 21, was assigned to Woehner Besitz Gmbh. (Roedental, Germany).
"Touch protected busbar system" was invented by Joram Masel (Kups-Oberlangenstadt, Germany), Philipp Steinberger (Coburg, Germany), Hubert Lenker (Sonneberg, Germany) and Alexander Scholz (Grub am Forst, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch protected busbar system (TP-BSYS) includes at least one hybrid busbar (1) having a current-carrying rail profile (2) and a contact-receiving rail profile (3) providing contact openings (4) configured to receive protruding electrical contacts (6) of electrical devices (ED-A) to be connected to the touch p...