ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,731, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Deviation detection system for power circuit" was invented by Jacob Pressman (Lawrence Park, Pa.), Ajith Kuttannair Kumar (Erie, Pa.) and Jacob Kenneth Pedder (State College, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes one or more sensors that generate sensor measurements representing a first parameter of one or more components of a power circuit. The system includes a control unit that obtains a reference rate of change value of the first parameter based at least in part on the sensor measurements over time. The control unit compares rat...