ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,810, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ABL IP HOLDING LLC (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for fault management and protection" was invented by Marc Paul Saes (Gemert, Netherlands) and Stephen H. Lydecker (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides distributed power and fault management systems. In one example embodiment, a single power transmitter is coupled to a plurality of power receiver devices via a low-ohmic connection. Each power receiver device is configured to provide local power, and to communicate power input information with the transmitter. The transmitter is configured to sum the power inp...