US Patent Issued to Hitachi Energy on Feb. 17 for "Gas monitoring system and respective method" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,729, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Gas monitoring system and respective method" was invented by Lennart Merkert (Heidelberg, Germany), Tim Schulze-Koenig (Heidelberg, Germany), Huiry-Yuan Zhou (Beijing) and MinZhong Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas monitoring system includes a gas-insulated switchgear including a chamber filled with an insulating gas surrounding a high or medium voltage component, a sensor operatively connected to the chamber and adapted to measure a physical property of the insulating gas in the chamber over time, and a computer unit adapted to perfor...