US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CARDIFF CONSULTANTS on Jan. 28 for "Fault diagnosis in an electricity supply network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,071, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CARDIFF CONSULTANTS LTD (Cardiff, Great Britain).

"Fault diagnosis in an electricity supply network" was invented by Jianzhong Wu (Cardiff, Great Britain) and Avinash Aithal (Cardiff, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An SOP for connection to a first feeder in an electricity distribution network, the SOP being configured to, when a feeder connected to the SOP is faulty, apply a diagnostic voltage to the feeder and make current and voltage measurements at the connection of the SOP to the feeder while the diagnostic voltage is being applied."

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