US Patent Issued to Hitachi Energy on Aug. 25 for "Device and method for protecting a harvesting circuit and/or enabling energy harvesting" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,265, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Device and method for protecting a harvesting circuit and/or enabling energy harvesting" was invented by Par Karlsson (Ludvika, Sweden), Johan Emil Kristiansson (Stockholm), Anders Kvist (Sundbyberg, Sweden) and Martin Sikstrom (Sundbyberg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a diversion circuit and a harvesting circuit, wherein the diversion circuit includes at least two parallel connected protection branches between a surge arrester and ground. The at least two protection branches include at least one TVS device and at least one ...