ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,292, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cummins Power Generation Inc. (Minneapolis).

"System for locating power faults based on a direction of current flow" was invented by Shubhranshu Verma (Shoreview, Minn.), John Dorough (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Der Ueng Lee (Roseville, Minn.), Saklain Karim (Fridley, Minn.) and Mark H. Schultz (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods, and computing platforms for determining a fault in a power system, executing on a controller are disclosed. Exemplary implementations can receive, from the plurality of system control modules, a plurality of power flow directions as measured by th...