US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on Aug. 25 for "Current transformer sensing with saturation protection" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,260, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Current transformer sensing with saturation protection" was invented by Christopher Blazer (Machesney Park, Ill.) and Brian Ross (Rockford, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a transient voltage suppression (TVS) device configured to be coupled in parallel with a burden resistor. The apparatus also includes a switch configured to couple the TVS device across the burden resistor. The apparatus further includes a comparator configured to detect a peak output voltage provided by a circuit, determine whether the peak output voltag...