ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,871, issued on Oct. 20.

"Line fault detection method, system, device, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Hongchun Shu (Kunming, China), Yue Dai (Kunming, China), Yutao Tang (Kunming, China), Daiwen Zhang (Kunming, China), Yiming Han (Kunming, China), Weijie Lou (Kunming, China), Hongfang Zhao (Kunming, China) and Shunguang Lei (Kunming, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The provided are a line fault detection method, system, equipment, and a computer-readable storage medium. The line fault detection method comprises the following steps: Inject a pulse signal into the grounding electrode line and acquire fault vo...