ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,982, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MEGGER GRID ANALYTICS LTD (Herzliya, Israel).

"System and method for detecting ground faults in power distribution grids" was invented by Liron Frenkel (Netanya, Israel) and Shay Frenkel (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting faults in three-phase power lines, including sampling current from die three phase power lines using a set of three sensors each located on a respective power line, processing the current samples from each of the three power lines and translating them to a representation of the current in the respective power lines using a processor provided...