ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,431, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Cence Power Inc. (Markham, Canada).

"Methods and systems for fault detection on direct current power lines" was invented by Bolis Ibrahim (Toronto), Sagar Jaiswal (Milton, Canada) and Jaideep Singh (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fault detection system for detecting a fault condition on a direct current (DC) transmission line. The system may include a transmitter including a DC source to energize a transmission line and a receiver connected to the transmission line and including a signal generator to generate a periodic signal at or near a resonant frequency. The transmitter may inclu...