US Patent Issued to ABB SCHWEIZ on Aug. 25 for "Combined fault current limiting and direct inrush restraint algorithms for improved transfer with static transfer switches" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,305, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Combined fault current limiting and direct inrush restraint algorithms for improved transfer with static transfer switches" was invented by Zhou Dong (Cary, N.C.), Govind Chavan (Garner, N.C.), Harish Suryanarayana (Apex, N.C.) and Shuyan Zhao (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for transferring a load between power sources may include monitoring voltage waveforms of power sources, in response to a power quality event affecting a first power source, switching a first switch device off to disconnect the load from the first power...