US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology on Dec. 2 for "System and method for detecting bearing insulation and ground brush health in a generator" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,269, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"System and method for detecting bearing insulation and ground brush health in a generator" was invented by Kapil Jha (Bengaluru, India), Rupam Mukherjee (Bengaluru, India) and Arvind Kumar Tiwari (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing damage in a bearing of a generator of an electrical power system having a power conversion assembly with a first converter coupled to a second converter, and the power conversion assembly electrically coupled to the generator. Further, the method includes monitoring a phas...