US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on July 14 for "Proactive relay and relay driver failure identification mechanism and microgrid interconnect device including the same" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,405, issued on July 14, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Proactive relay and relay driver failure identification mechanism and microgrid interconnect device including the same" was invented by Aalokkumar Dulalchandra Datta (Kolhapur, India), Pratik Kumar Kar (Berhampur, India) and Amit Ravindra Chavan (Kolhapur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microgrid interconnect device (MID) includes: a relay structured to be connected to a utility grid and distributed energy resources (DERs); a relay driver connected to the relay and structured to actuate the relay to connect or disconnect the DERs from the grid, th...