US Patent Issued to Aclara Technologies on June 17 for "Systems and methods for estimating neutral impedance and detecting faulted neutral connection in an electrical meter" (Missouri, Ohio, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,288, issued on June 17, was assigned to Aclara Technologies LLC (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for estimating neutral impedance and detecting faulted neutral connection in an electrical meter" was invented by Gregory Berchin (Wright City, Mo.), Lakshan Prageeth Piyasinghe (St. Charles, Mo.), Kartikeya Tripathi (Clarksburg, Md.), Lawrence R. Kremer (St. Peters, Mo.), Mukesh Kumar Chippa (Aurora, Ohio) and David W. Rieken (St. Peters, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric utility meter includes a housing, an input configured on the housing that receives input electricity from an electricity source, and a controller having a...