ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,057, issued on July 14, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Time alignment method of differential protection device, differential protection device and differential protection system" was invented by Yansong Gao (Shanghai), Ian Young (Ingleburn, Australia), Xuedi Liang (Shanghai) and Yong Wei (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time alignment method for a differential protection device, the differential protection device and a differential protection system are disclosed. The time alignment method includes obtaining a plurality of current sampled values and a count value of each curren...