US Patent Issued to Safegrid on Sept. 16 for "Power converter for harvesting electrical power" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,198, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Safegrid Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Power converter for harvesting electrical power" was invented by Jyrki Penttonen (Helsinki) and Jussi Hakunti (Turku, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power harnesser for harvesting electrical power from an electrical power supply including a current transformer arrangeable to surround an electrical power supply such that the electrical power supply induces a secondary current in a secondary winding of current transformer, a power conversion module coupled to the secondary winding of the current transformer, sensing module arrangeable to surround the ele...