MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517073727 A) filed by Legrand Dpc, Llc, Hartford, U.S.A., on Aug. 2, for 'circuit breaker forensics for power distribution units.'
Inventor(s) include Krause, Christian; Baumann, Danny; Suchoff, Michael; Maskaly, James; and Mott, Paul.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed are power distribution systems and methods in which a power distribution unit (PDU) is provided with an overcurrent protection device and per-outlet current sensing at each of the multiple electrical outlets of the PDU. The described embodiments enable the identification of the electronic device connected to a specific outlet or electronic device that may have caused the overcurrent protection device to trip. The methods of outlet identification in a PDU having multiple electrical outlets includes detecting whether either a peak current or a half-cycle root mean square (RMS) current at each outlet has exceeded a selected threshold prior to the occurrence of the trip event associated with the overcurrent protection device."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 16, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/011581.
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