ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,360, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Terna S.P.A. (Rome).
"Grounding system for towers of overhead power lines" was invented by Roberto Spezie (Rome), Francesco Palone (Rome), Luca Buono (Rome), Maurizio Carbone (Rome) and Piero Matli (Rome).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a grounding system for a tower of an overhead power line, wherein said tower is anchored to the ground by means of one or more anchorage structures (1) at least partially buried. The grounding system is buried and comprises: a first electrically conductive ring-type grounding element (21) which is buried at a first predefined depth, extend...