US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on Dec. 16 for "Magnetic core winder for powerline-mounted devices" (Washington, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,032, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Magnetic core winder for powerline-mounted devices" was invented by David Kenny (Pullman, Wash.), Brett Taggart (Moscow, Idaho) and Timothy M. Minteer (Pullman, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include using a magnetic core winder to install a powerline-mounted device with a non-gapped magnetic core, therefore reducing the weight of the powerline-mounted device while still harvesting equal or more power than a large cross-sectional and gapped magnetic cores. In particular, the methods include installing bobbin(s...