US Patent Issued to Itron on July 28 for "Load-side voltage sensing in a power meter" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,319, issued on July 28, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Load-side voltage sensing in a power meter" was invented by Andrew Lancaster (Fair Play, S.C.) and Stephen Ross Sanner (Seneca, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load-side voltage detection module for a metrology device includes a plurality of first resistors electrically coupled to a first load-side terminal, the first resistors being in series, a plurality of second resistors electrically coupled to a second load-side terminal, the second resistors being in series, a voltage divider electrically coupled between a first line-side terminal and a second lin...