US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on April 14 for "Current sensor with adjacent conductor rejection" (Idaho, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,763, issued on April 14, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Current sensor with adjacent conductor rejection" was invented by Johnny J. Moore (Moscow, Idaho), David Kenny (Pullman, Wash.), Raymond W. Rice (Pullman, Wash.), Miralem Cosic (Spokane, Wash.) and Lyssa W. Blood (Potlatch, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiport current sensor is disclosed for measuring current. The sensor may include multiple CT or Rogowski coil segments or sections arranged in a closed loop configuration around a monitored phase line or other electrical conductor. An adjacent phase rejection circuit compa...