US Patent Issued to Wayne/Scott Fetzer, Grid Connect on Jan. 13 for "Motor leakage current detector, devices using same and related methods" (Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,232, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Wayne/Scott Fetzer Co. (Westlake, Ohio) and Grid Connect Inc. (Naperville, Ill.).

"Motor leakage current detector, devices using same and related methods" was invented by Philip Anthony Mayleben (Burlington, Ky.), Thomas Kent Flippin (Cincinnati) and Cristian Codreanu (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor leakage current detector and/or a heat compensating circuit, devices using same and related methods are disclosed herein. Included are a uniquely wired current transformer to allow for polarity agnostic leakage current detection, a leakage current detector using same and having a not...