US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on May 20 for "Systems and methods for establishing a backup secure communication link in an electric power distribution system" (Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,998, issued on May 20, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for establishing a backup secure communication link in an electric power distribution system" was invented by Colin Gordon (Katy, Texas) and Robert Meine (Port Richey, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for 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 determine that a first switch of the electric power distribution system is a pr...