ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,304, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MEGGER GRID ANALYTICS LTD (Herzliya, Israel).
"Smart grid sensor with power harvesting from low line currents" was invented by Liron Frenkel (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for harvesting power from AC current in a power line, including a split magnetic core having two halves, wherein the two halves of the magnetic core are configured to enclose around the power line; a coil is wrapped around one or two halves of the magnetic core with a first end and a second end of the coil configured to provide current from the coil; a power harvesting circuit is configured to harves...