ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,877, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hubbell Inc. (Shelton, Conn.).
"System and method for discerning arcing in electrical wiring" was invented by William Vernon Miller III (Aldie, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiring device may include an interrupting device configured to be placed in a tripped condition. A wiring device may include a controller having an electronic processor and a memory, the controller configured to identify a presence of an in-rush condition conforming with a decay progression envelope falling between an upper limit and a lower limit specific to a cycle's position in sequence, and prevent the tripped co...