ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,233, issued on July 8, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).
"Protection circuits" was invented by Ismael Adolfo Ochoa (Stafford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection circuit, for protecting a whole or part of a HVDC power transmission network, includes a number of sets of sensors, each of which set defines a respective protection zone. The protection circuit also includes a controller that is programmed to evaluate sensor information received from the sensors to determine whether a fault has occurred within a protection zone. The controller is further programmed, in the even...