US Patent Issued to Aclara Technologies on May 12 for "Integrated switched capacitor bank with zero close control" (Maryland, New Jersey, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,147, issued on May 12, was assigned to Aclara Technologies LLC (St. Louis).

"Integrated switched capacitor bank with zero close control" was invented by Balaji Santhanam (Boonton, N.J.), Juliene Britt (Birmingham, Ala.) and David S. Yaney (Poolesville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switched capacitor bank system including a switched capacitor bank assembly having a switch between a capacitor and a phase line, a first voltage sensor to sense a phase line voltage, and a second voltage sensor to sense a capacitor voltage. The switched capacitor bank system includes a wireless current sensor to sense a current of the phase line and...