US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on Nov. 4 for "Single phase broken conductor detection" (Washington, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,171, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Single phase broken conductor detection" was invented by Yanfeng Gong (Dublin, Ohio), Normann Fischer (Colfax, Wash.), Gandhali P Juvekar (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.) and Kanchanrao Gangadhar Dase (Pullman, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods to detect a fault in an electric power system. One embodiment may detect a single phase broken conductor in a multi-phase electric power system. An intelligent electronic device (IED) may receive a plurality of measurements over time of a current ...