US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on May 20 for "Unbalance protection for shunt capacitor banks" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,635, issued on May 20, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Unbalance protection for shunt capacitor banks" was invented by Bogdan Z. Kasztenny (Markham, Canada) and Satish Samineni (Malvern, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Protection of shunt capacitor banks in electric power delivery systems using protection settings determined by the protection device or an independent system using capacitor bank arrangement data is described herein. Capacitor bank arrangement data may be entered into an intelligent electronic device (IED). The IED may determine protection settings for the capacitor bank a...