ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,374, issued on July 14, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).
"Testing system for distributed power delivery protection or control system" was invented by Arun Shrestha (Charlotte, N.C.), David Schmidt (Athens, Ga.), Vikram A P Simha (Pullman, Wash.), Dale S. Finney (Little Bras d'Or, Canada) and Daqing Hou (Matthews, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a first intelligent electronic device (IED) configured to receive simulated electric power delivery system measurements and test configuration settings from a computing device, transmit a signal indicative of instructions to paus...