ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,637, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA INC. (Boston).

"Automatic assessment of electrical unbalance on three-phase loads" was invented by Jon A. Bickel (Murfreesboro, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for assessing and managing an electrical unbalance condition associated with a three-phase electrical system. An Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) coupled to the load acquires energy-related signals associated with the electrical system. A processor is configured to characterize electrical unbalance between a plurality of conductors analyze data associated with the characterization to ident...