US Patent Issued to HITACHI ENERGY on Aug. 19 for "Determination of electrical making instants using load voltage for coupled loads" (Swedish, Swiss, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,578, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to HITACHI ENERGY LTD (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Determination of electrical making instants using load voltage for coupled loads" was invented by Mehulbhai Ghanshyambhai Sonagra (Gujarat, India), Urmil Parikh (Ludvika, Sweden) and Michael Stanek (Gebenstorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to detect an electrical making instant for a coupled load is provided. A measured terminal voltage is obtained for each phase of one or more phases of an electrical equipment from a voltage measuring device, during an energization operation of the electrical equipment through a switching device...