US Patent Issued to Leviton Manufacturing on Feb. 18 for "Arc fault detection using machine learning" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,953, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Arc fault detection using machine learning" was invented by Yazhou Zhang (Manhasset, N.Y.), Michael Ostrovsky (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ankit Sanghvi (Hicksville, N.Y.) and Adam Kevelos (Plainview, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects of the present disclosure, a circuit interrupter includes a housing, a conductive path, a switch which selectively interrupts the conductive path, sensor(s), memory, and a controller within the housing. The sensor(s) measure electrical characteristic(s) of the conductive path. The memory stores an arc detection p...