ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,678, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Method for determining a gas quantity in an insulated switchgear" was invented by Diego Alberto (Corenc, France), Philippe Brun (Bernin, France) and Raimund Summer (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a quantity of a gas contained in a tank of an insulated switchgear. The method includes: (i) acquiring a first temperature and a second temperature measured by a gas temperature sensor respectively at a first instant and at a second instant during a calibration phase; (ii) acquiring a first pressu...