US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on Sept. 16 for "Network protector with a communications interface" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,171, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Network protector with a communications interface" was invented by Hossein Ghassempour Aghamolki (Edina, Minn.), Swaroop Gajare (Cranberry Township, Pa.), Amal Thomas (Changanassery, India) and Amit Govind Kolge (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network protector includes: a first resettable switching apparatus configured to control an electrical connection between a distribution transformer and a first electrical feeder of a secondary electrical distribution network; a first communications interface; and a first controller configured to: de...