ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,073, issued on April 22, was assigned to Electronic Sazan Fan Aria Co. (Iran).

"Inter-turn fault detection in current transformers" was invented by Mahdi Davarpanah (Tehran, Iran), Mohammad Rasoul Noori (Tehran, Iran), Abbas Torkamani (Tehran, Iran) and Hossein Dadashi Ilkhechi (Tehran, Iran).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inter-turn fault detection in a current transformer (CT). The method includes obtaining a first inter-turn fault index of the CT, obtaining a second inter-turn fault index of the CT, and detecting an inter-turn fault in the CT based on the first inter-turn fault index and the second inter-turn fault inde...