US Patent Issued to Aclara Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for utility conductor event detection and response" (New Jersey, Ohio, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,359, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Aclara Technologies LLC (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for utility conductor event detection and response" was invented by Balaji Santhanam (Parsippany, N.J.), Michael Lee Kelley (Birmingham, Ala.), Steven E. Wilder (Solon, Ohio), Douglas J. Batey (Solon, Ohio), Scott G. Leyh (Solon, Ohio) and William E. Laudolff (Solon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a number of sensor units and a local controls station. The sensor units include one or more conductor sensors configured to monitor one or more parameters of a conductor in a power distribution system. The local control sta...