US Patent Issued to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA on May 19 for "Sensing leakage current in fault managed power systems" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,694, issued on May 19, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA INC. (Boston).

"Sensing leakage current in fault managed power systems" was invented by John J. Shea (Wake Forest, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fault managed power system (FMPS) measures leakage current in an electronic circuit. The FMPS comprises a source controller, leakage current sensor, pulsing controller, and load end circuit. The source controller generates a pulsing input defining a current-on time interval and current-off time interval. During the current-off time interval, a source driver of the source controller opens a source switch to disconnect power ...