US Patent Issued to S&C Electric on June 23 for "Lateral fault isolation" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,413, issued on June 23, was assigned to S&C Electric Co. (Chicago).

"Lateral fault isolation" was invented by Michael John Meisinger Sr. (Chicago), Richard Thomas Gray (Orthbrook, Ill.), Michael J. Higginson (Mount Prospect, Ill.) and Martin T. Bishop (Oak Creek, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing fault isolation in a power distribution network. The network includes a power line, a recloser coupled to the power line and a plurality of switching devices coupled to the power line downstream of the recloser, where each switching device is capable of detecting fault current in response to the fault and ...