ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,412, issued on March 25, was assigned to CITEL (Sevres, France).
"Surge protection device integrating a current measurement sensor" was invented by Vincent Mathieu (Sevres, France) and Dirk Schneider (Sevres, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a surge protection device intended to be installed on an electrical installation, in parallel with one or more items of equipment to be protected, said electrical installation comprising at least one first phase line (L1), a neutral line (N) and an earth line (T), the protection device comprising a casing; and a current measurement toroid, which is housed in the cas...