US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Nov. 4 for "Arrester system of parallel-connected arresters, and method for detecting faults of the arresters" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,136, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Arrester system of parallel-connected arresters, and method for detecting faults of the arresters" was invented by Thomas Hilker (Stahnsdorf, Germany) and Henrik Roggow (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrester system has at least two parallel-connected arresters, each with a sensor for determining leakage currents. A monitoring system is configured to detect faults at the arresters by comparing sensor data. The method for detecting faults at parallel-connected arresters includes comparing in particular the present measured values of the arr...