US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on June 23 for "Optics-based remote monitoring of protection devices" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,409, issued on June 23, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Optics-based remote monitoring of protection devices" was invented by Robert Stephen Douglass (Wildwood, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a light source configured to emit light as an indication that an electrical protection device has operated. The electrical protection device is configured to operate in response to a fault condition detected on an energized conductor to which the electrical protection device is electrically coupled. The device further includes an optical device coupled to the light source and configured to channel th...