ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,556, issued on March 31, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Network protector for secondary distribution network that includes distributed energy resources" was invented by Hossein Ghassempour Aghamolki (Edina, Minn.), Swaroop Gajare (Cranberry Township, Pa.), Amal Thomas (Changanassery, India) and Amit Govind Kolge (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network protector includes a resettable switching apparatus configured to electrically connect to a low-voltage feeder of a secondary distribution network; a switch control configured to control a state of the resettable switching apparatus to thereby det...