US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Oct. 27 for "Circuit breaker protection from delayed zero-crossing" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,639, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Circuit breaker protection from delayed zero-crossing" was invented by Nabil El Halabi Fares (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ibrahim Mohammed Aljudaibi (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control of a circuit breaker in a high voltage power station includes a signal processing circuit housed in the circuit breaker local control cabinet and wired in series with the circuit breaker, the signal processing circuit to receive a continuous alternating current (AC) electrical signal; determine an anticipated zero-crossing from the continuous...