US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on Dec. 16 for "Multiphase power-harvesting sensor devices and systems" (Washington, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,026, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Multiphase power-harvesting sensor devices and systems" was invented by Timothy M. Minteer (Pullman, Wash.), David Kenny (Pullman, Wash.), Johnny J. Moore (Moscow, Idaho), Raymond W. Rice (Pullman, Wash.), Benjamin T. Rowland (Pullman, Wash.), Lyssa W. Blood (Potlatch, Wash.) and Brett Taggart (Moscow, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current transformer (CT) isolation clamp is mounted to a phase conductor and includes a step-down CT transformer and a passive isolation transformer. A three-phase power-harvesting sensor system inc...