US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on Aug. 19 for "Systems and methods for establishing a secure communication link in an electric power distribution system" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,530, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for establishing a secure communication link in an electric power distribution system" was invented by Colin Gordon (Katy, Texas), Duane C. Skelton (Bellingham, Wash.) and Abhilash Manjunath (Mill Creek, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent electronic device (IED) of an electric power distribution system includes processing circuitry and a memory that includes instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processing circuitry, are configured to cause the processing circuitry to transmit a first...