ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,314, issued on June 17, was assigned to North China Electric Power University (Baoding) (Baoding, China).

"Generator fault detection method based on the characteristics of air gap magnetic flux density" was invented by Yuling He (Baoding, China), Wen Zhang (Baoding, China), Yong Li (Baoding, China), Yifan Bai (Baoding, China), Mingxing Xu (Baoding, China) and Xiaolong Wang (Baoding, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generator fault detection method based on the characteristics of air gap magnetic flux density includes the following steps: S1: installing detection devices on a generator and building a test platform; S2: obtaining...