ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,146, issued on July 15.

"Method and apparatus to generate an alert based on health of an earthing system" was invented by Sonjib Banerjee (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (100) to generate an alert based on a health of an earthing system is provided. The apparatus includes a single electrode arrangement comprising a single electrode (102) having one or more sensors (106a-106b) mounted thereon and configured to measure (402) a resistance of an earth pit existing within the earthing system during normal and fault time. The apparatus (100) further includes an electronic module (104) that is communicatively c...