US Patent Issued to VOLVO PENTA on Aug. 5 for "Method for controlling stray currents in a marine electrical supply system and a marine vessel comprising a marine electrical supply system" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,389, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to VOLVO PENTA Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for controlling stray currents in a marine electrical supply system and a marine vessel comprising a marine electrical supply system" was invented by Simon Lannetoft (Trollhattan, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for cancelling stray currents in a marine electrical supply system, which system comprises a protective earth circuit connecting a vessel to ground when a source of power is connected to the vessel is described. The method involves the steps of monitoring the current in the protective earth circuit using a current...