US Patent Issued to Viper Innovations on March 17 for "Remote calculation of earth connection impedance" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,371, issued on March 17, was assigned to Viper Innovations Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Remote calculation of earth connection impedance" was invented by Steve Simpson (Bristol, Great Britain) and Keith David Coventry (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of remotely determining an impedance of an earth connection (142) of a first electrical equipment (122) connected to a power supply network (300). The method comprises receiving (606), from a first measurement node (302) connected to the first electrical equipment, a first value of an insulation impedance of the power supply network and receiving (612), from a s...