US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for testing partial discharge during the leakage and/or surge tests for electric machines" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,673, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for testing partial discharge during the leakage and/or surge tests for electric machines" was invented by John S. Agapiou (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Ronald M. Lesperance (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A testing system includes an AC signal generator configured to selectively generate a sinusoidal signal including a plurality of cycles. A dielectric strength and partial discharge tester sequentially performs dielectric strength and partial discharge testing of a stator of an electric machine using the sinusoida...