US Patent Issued to Southwest Electric on March 25 for "Three-phase multi-tap balancing distribution transformer" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,985, issued on March 25, was assigned to Southwest Electric Co. (Oklahoma City).

"Three-phase multi-tap balancing distribution transformer" was invented by James Patrick Nunamaker (Shawnee, Okla.), Ryan Joe Umber (Oklahoma City) and Willian Aristides Martinez (Oklahoma City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an exemplary three-phase multi-tap balancing distribution transformer capable of operation with both balanced and unbalanced loads and that provides a wide range of incremental voltages to compensate for the varying voltage drops and imbalances as the attached conductor length increases and allows use...