US Patent Issued to HSP Hochspannungsgerate on Jan. 28 for "Magneto-optic current transformer, and method for measuring a current intensity" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,042, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to HSP Hochspannungsgerate GmbH (Troisdorf, Germany).

"Magneto-optic current transformer, and method for measuring a current intensity" was invented by Federico Canas (Falkensee, Germany), Thomas Judendorfer (Bayern, Germany) and Stefan Schuberth (Bavaria, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magneto-optic current transformer for measuring a current intensity of an electric current in an electrical conductor includes two light-guide units, each with an input polarizer, an output polarizer and a light guide arranged between the input and the output polarizer. A light-supply device is included w...