ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,806, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to REINHAUSEN GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Method for actuating an on-load tap changer, and on-load tap changer device" was invented by Sebastian Rehkopf (Regensburg, Germany), Andreas Sachsenhauser (Mallersdorf, Germany) and Konrad Radlinger (Tegernheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for actuating an on-load tap-changer with a drive, a sensor and a control device is provided. The control device receives a switching command to actuate the on-load tap-changer. A starting time at which the switching command to actuate the on-load tap-changer was received in the current profile is d...