ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,914, issued on April 1, was assigned to BAODING YUXIN ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hebei, China).

"Method for processing interphase short circuit" was invented by Zhanyu Xue (Hebei, China) and Jinchun Xing (Hebei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing an interphase short circuit is provided, including: when a two-phase or three-phase interphase short circuit occurs in a line, maintaining a fault phase of the line to be conducted and tripping off the remaining fault phases, and artificially grounding another fault phase connected to the fault phase or directly utilizing an existing grounding point; connecting a...