US Patent Issued to NITTO KOGYO on March 25 for "Discharge detector with learning mode for resetting settings to detecting occurrence of discharge" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,423, issued on March 25, was assigned to NITTO KOGYO Corp. (Nagakute, Japan).

"Discharge detector with learning mode for resetting settings to detecting occurrence of discharge" was invented by Atsushi Miyamoto (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The discharge detector of the present invention includes a filter circuit configured to pass a noise superimposed on the current or voltage in a predetermined frequency range; an amplifier configured to amplify a level of the noise passed through the filter circuit; and a processor configured to detect occurrence of discharge based on the noise level amplified by the amplifier. ...