US Patent Issued to PPL Services on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for relay logic for isolation of the grid and forming of a single-phase island" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,801, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PPL Services Corp. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for relay logic for isolation of the grid and forming of a single-phase island" was invented by Nate Simons (Allentown, Pa.), Robert Beckett (Allentown, Pa.), Donald Vinciguerra (Allentown, Pa.) and Carol Gillette (Allentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for improving grid reliability in remote or isolated locations includes a battery tripping module, the battery tripping module determining whether a microgrid zone may be formed upon a fault. The system further includes a microgrid formation module, the microgrid formation...