US Patent Issued on Nov. 4 for "Power transmission tower structure with embedded ground conductor for improving lightning performance and method for determining location and effect of embedded conductor" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,410, issued on Nov. 4.

"Power transmission tower structure with embedded ground conductor for improving lightning performance and method for determining location and effect of embedded conductor" was invented by Farouk A. M. Rizk (Saint-Lambert, Canada) and Amr Rizk (Verdun, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power line conductors are normally shielded from direct lightning strikes by appropriately placed overhead ground wires. However, even when such overhead ground wires work as intended and intercept a strike, for a short period of time, typically a few microseconds, the shield wire is exposed to an impulse type potential rise. ...