US Patent Issued to Qualitrol on Aug. 4 for "Detection and location of partial discharge and arc faults" (British, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,124, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Qualitrol Co. LLC (Fairport, N.Y.).

"Detection and location of partial discharge and arc faults" was invented by Fraser Cook (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Thomas Linn (Singapore), Colin Brown (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Paul Donegan (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of automatically detecting electrical discharges in a gas insulated switchgear equipment and locating the electrical discharges in real-time is disclosed. The method includes sensing an ultra high frequency (UHF) signal generated from the electrical discharges at multiple channels simultaneously...