US Patent Issued to Hitachi Energy on Oct. 21 for "Gas insulated surge arrester and a gas insulated surge arrester monitoring system" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,275, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Gas insulated surge arrester and a gas insulated surge arrester monitoring system" was invented by James Taylor (Ludvika, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas insulated surge arrester is disclosed, including a metal clad housing within which a block stack is arranged. The block stack includes at least one metal-oxide resistor column and the gas insulated surge arrester is characterized by a capacitive element arranged to obtain an electric field measurement of the gas insulated surge arrester; and by a bushing arranged through the metal clad hou...