ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,993, issued on May 13, was assigned to Faraday Defense Corp. (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

"Apparatus for detection of electrical disturbances resulting from electromagnetic pulse and solar storm" was invented by Arthur Thomas Bradley (Yorktown, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus detects complex time-variant electromagnetic disturbances resulting from a high-altitude nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) or solar storm. The device relies on a circuit (104, 1301) to monitor the input power lines (301, 401, 501) for sustained conducted electrical disturbances associated with the E3 phase of an EMP or solar storm. A separate circuit (1...