ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,207, issued on March 3, was assigned to Safegrid Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Sensing systems for monitoring and managing faults in electrical utility grid" was invented by Tapio Mantysalo (Hevonpaa, Finland) and Jussi Hakunti (Parainen, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a sensing apparatus with a first sensor device, second sensor device, third sensor device, which sense magnetic fields to generate sensor data, and a first processor. The sensing apparatus is arranged on an electrical pole of the electrical utility grid. The second sensor device overlaps with the first sensor device to form a cross-positioned two-sensor co...