US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on April 29 for "Systems and methods for identifying grid fault type and faulted phase" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,362, issued on April 29, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Systems and methods for identifying grid fault type and faulted phase" was invented by Venkatesh Chakrapani (Stafford, Great Britain) and Ilia Voloh (Thornhill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting a fault type and faulted phase in a power grid includes a controller and a relay. The relay is configured to monitor a line of the power grid and generate a monitoring signal. The controller may be configured to determine, in response to the monitoring signal received from the relay, sequence voltages and sequence currents ...