ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,267, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Fault location determination in a power transmission system" was invented by Od Naidu (Karnataka, India), Neethu George (Karnataka, India), Preetham Venkat Yalla (Karnataka, India) and Suresh Maturu (Andhra Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fault location determination in a power transmission system is described. Samples of voltage and current measured are obtained for each phase at a terminal. A first equivalent reactance value based on the samples of voltage and current is calculated. Further, based on the calculated equivalent reactance va...