ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,785, issued on April 21, was assigned to STATE GRID JIANGSU TAIZHOU POWER SUPPLY COMPANY (Taizhou, China) and STATE GRID JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China).

"Non-contact live detection apparatus and live detection method" was invented by Ze Zhang (Taizhou, China), Shuheng Wang (Taizhou, China), Ling Ju (Taizhou, China), Danyin Wen (Taizhou, China), Sen Yang (Taizhou, China), Xiaoyun Liao (Taizhou, China), Lijian Ouyang (Taizhou, China), Jun Xu (Taizhou, China), Yanquan Zhu (Taizhou, China) and Hui Qi (Taizhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a non-contact live detection apparatus and a live detection ...