US Patent Issued to Quanta Technology on March 25 for "Fault detection in an electric power system" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,413, issued on March 25, was assigned to Quanta Technology LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Fault detection in an electric power system" was invented by Eric Udren (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fault protection system is configured to detect a fault in an electric power system. The fault protection system obtains a differential measurement signal. The differential measurement signal may, for example, indicate, as a function of time, the difference between currents or voltages measured at two or more terminals or boundaries of a fault protection zone of the electric power system. Regardless, the fault protection system generates ...