ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,338, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nanjing University Of Aeronautics & Astronautics (Nanjing, China).

"Partial discharge detecting method using ultraviolet imagery under pulse voltage condition" was invented by Jun Jiang (Nanjing, China), Bendong Zhang (Nanjing, China), Zhibang Shen (Nanjing, China) and Chaohai Zhang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partial discharge detecting method using ultraviolet imagery under pulse voltage condition is discussed. The method samples video data at a partial discharge area of a target electric system by an ultraviolet imager, obtains an ultraviolet image by extracting video fra...