ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,680, issued on April 15, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Abnormal detection circuit for detecting three-phase AC power" was invented by Wen-Cheng Liang (Chiayi, Taiwan), Teng-Chieh Yang (Pingtung County, Taiwan) and Chi-Tien Sun (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abnormal detection circuit is provided. The abnormal detection circuit includes a conversion circuit, a voltage detection circuit, and a warning circuit. The conversion circuit receives a three-phase alternating current (AC) power and converts the three-phase AC power into a driving power. The voltage detection circ...