US Patent Issued to Faraday Defense on March 18 for "Apparatus for detection of electrical disturbances resulting from electromagnetic pulse" (Virginia, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,552, issued on March 18, was assigned to Faraday Defense Corp. (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

"Apparatus for detection of electrical disturbances resulting from electromagnetic pulse" was invented by Arthur Thomas Bradley (Chesapeake, Va.) and Jason R DeVries (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus detects an E3 phase and E1 and E2 phases of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). A pulse detector detects E1 and E2. A sustained level detector connects to a mains utility power supply line to detect E3. A delay timer holds an indication of a detected E1 or E2 for a predetermined time limit of about 10 minutes. A latch holds an indi...