ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,282, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Field winding interlayer short-circuit monitoring device and field winding interlayer short-circuit monitoring method" was invented by Masafumi Fujita (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuo Kabata (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Toshio Hirano (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichiro Gunji (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Masashi Kobayashi (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Hirotada Endo (Ota Tokyo, Japan) and Koji Ando (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a field winding interlayer short-circuit monitoring devic...