US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on March 17 for "Multi-ended impedance-based fault locating for untransposed transmission lines" (North Carolina, Idaho, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,374, issued on March 17, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Multi-ended impedance-based fault locating for untransposed transmission lines" was invented by Sathish Kumar Mutha (Moscow, Idaho), Arun Shrestha (Charlotte, N.C.) and Sajal Harmukh (Pullman, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to determine a location of a fault in a power network includes monitoring electrical measurements, receiving an indication of a presence of the fault; determining a first sequence mutual coupling parameter based on the electrical measurements, wherein the first sequence mutual coupling parameter ind...