US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Sept. 8 for "Magnetic field-based detection method and system for circuit breaker switching operation and arc duration detection" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,153, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Magnetic field-based detection method and system for circuit breaker switching operation and arc duration detection" was invented by Ning Guo (Atlanta), Abdul Raheem Beyah (Atlanta), Morris Cohen (Atlanta), Lukas Graber (Atlanta), Tohid Shekari (Atlanta) and Kevin Thomas Whitmore (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of tracking load switching operations and fault clearing operations of at least one circuit breaker in a power circuit includes at least one coil antenna sensing changes in a magnetic field around the coil antenna. The changes in t...