ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,399, issued on March 17, was assigned to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring a through fault current" was invented by Balakrishna Pamulaparthy (Hyderabad, India), Elm Costa i Bricha (Lisburn, Great Britain) and Bryan McKibbin (Glarryford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a method for monitoring a through fault current. The method may involve: detecting a through fault; calculating an electrical stress, peak current, and duration of the through fault; determining two sets of percentage state changes associated with the through fault; a...