ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,051, issued on April 22, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Litz wire health monitoring" was invented by Ali Alkaraghouli (Solihull, Great Britain) and Grzegorz Popek (Birmingham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring the health of a Litz wire. This can be done by representing the wire as a transmission line that is terminated at each end. A pulse can be induced in the transmission line and monitored with and using time domain reflectometry (TDR) to monitor the state of strands of the Litz wire."
The patent was filed on Feb. 16, 2021, under Application No. 17/176,28...