ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,174, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to XIAMEN HONGFA ELECTRIC POWER CONTROLS Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).

"High-voltage DC relay" was invented by Meng Wang (Xiamen, China), Wenguang Dai (Xiamen, China), Songsheng Chen (Xiamen, China) and Liji Su (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay includes a contact container including a yoke plate and an insulating cover connected with the yoke plate to form a contact chamber; a pair of static contact leading-out terminals passing through a pair of first through holes of the insulating cover; a fixing member within the contact container and fixedly connected with the yoke plate; a ...