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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Power Measurement Ltd., , CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ; G01R 3/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ; G01R 3/100 ;
Abstract
An intelligent electronic device for measuring various power parameters from a electrical power distribution system is disclosed. The device is capable of measuring and reporting the reliability of the electrical power distribution system as the number of consecutive 9's digits appearing in the computed percentage of system downtime versus system uptime. Depending on the level of reliability required, the computation of the percentage may be altered to increase or decrease resolution.