ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,569, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to State Grid Hubei Extra High Voltage Co. (Wuhan, China) and Hubei Superenergic Electric Power Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Detection method and detection device for detecting fault of insulator discharge based on image recognition" was invented by Jun Wu (Wuhan, China), Shenli Wang (Wuhan, China), Xiangdong Wu (Wuhan, China), Xiangkui He (Wuhan, China), Quan Fang (Wuhan, China), Huaqiao Xiang (Wuhan, China), Xun Zhang (Wuhan, China) and Xiaohui Wei (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection method for detecting fault of insulator discharge based on image recognition includes the follo...