US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 22 for "Trip circuit for adjusting tripping characteristics of protective relays" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,370, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Trip circuit for adjusting tripping characteristics of protective relays" was invented by Hussain Adnan Alawami (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trip circuit for protecting a power distribution system includes a trip coil. The trip coil includes a first coil terminal coupled to a first bus line. Moreover the trip circuit includes a self-power relay that provides energy to the first bus line and a second bus line. Further, the trip circuit includes a normal setting contact and a reduced setting contact each coupled to t...