ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,385, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Kunming University of Science and Technology (China).

"Arc suppression method, system, and medium for distribution network faults based on closed-loop self-healing control" was invented by Hongchun Shu (Kunming City, China), Jun Dong (Kunming City, China), Yuan Gao (Kunming City, China), Yutao Tang (Kunming City, China), Kaiqing Tian (Kunming City, China) and Zhiheng Yang (Kunming City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to relay protection technology, specifically a method, system, and medium for fault arc suppression in distribution networks using closed-loop self-healin...