ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,036, issued on July 1, was assigned to KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (China).

"Adaptive arc suppression method for ground faults in a combined active and passive distribution network" was invented by Hongchun Shu (Kunming, China), Jun Dong (Kunming, China), Yuan Gao (Kunming, China), Yutao Tang (Kunming, China), Yiming Han (Kunming, China) and Kaiqing Tian (Kunming, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application presents an adaptive arc suppression method for ground faults in distribution networks, merging active and passive relay protection strategies. The method proceeds as follows: based on collected ground pa...