US Patent Issued to Ampacimon on Sept. 15 for "Method and device for monitoring severity of vibration in overhead power lines" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,423, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Ampacimon S.A. (Grace-Hollogne, Belgium).

"Method and device for monitoring severity of vibration in overhead power lines" was invented by Bertrand Godard (Seraing, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a severity of vibration, which is a product of vibration frequency f by antinode amplitude of vibration A, and for estimating fatigue lifetime or damage of a suspended electrical cable span of overhead power lines, the suspended electrical cable span having a sag possibly negligible with respect to span length and a local tension, and being subject to a variation of th...