US Patent Issued to Forsyth Robotics on Aug. 5 for "Fault detection and automatic switching of relays" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,557, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Forsyth Robotics LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Fault detection and automatic switching of relays" was invented by John McGregor Forsyth Jr. (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including one or more relays and a fault detector is disclosed. The one or more relays are coupled to a load. The fault detector is coupled with the one or more relays and receives at least one control signal. The fault detector includes a sensor to detect electricity flowing through the load and generate a detection signal. Based on a comparison of the control signal and the detection signal, the fault dete...