US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on Aug. 12 for "Fault location estimation using incremental quantities" (North Carolina, Washington, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,962, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Fault location estimation using incremental quantities" was invented by Arun Shrestha (Charlotte, N.C.), Sathish Kumar Mutha (Pullman, Wash.) and Brian A. Smyth (Butte, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system are used to analyze incremental quantities. The electrical measurements associated with a loop in a multiple-phase electric power delivery system are obtained before a fault occurred on the loop and after the fault occurred on the loop, and differences between the electrical measurements are used to determine in...