US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on March 11 for "Split-phase protection of generators" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,948, issued on March 11, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Split-phase protection of generators" was invented by Ritwik Chowdhury (Charlotte, N.C.), Matchyaraju Alla (Pullman, Wash.), Normann Fischer (Colfax, Wash.) and Dale S. Finney (Little Bras d'Or, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure pertains to devices, systems, and methods for monitoring a generator. In one embodiment, the system may include a measurement subsystem to receive a plurality of split-phase measurements of branch currents associated with the at least one generator. A split-phase transverse differen...