Patents by Inventor Michael Bitsch

Michael Bitsch has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10371730
    Abstract: A branch current monitor that includes client level access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Bitsch, Eric Moon
  • Patent number: 10371721
    Abstract: A system for configuration of power meters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Cook, Michael Bitsch
  • Patent number: 10234484
    Abstract: A power monitoring system includes a plurality of current sensors suitable to sense respective changing electrical current within a respective conductor to a respective load and a conductor sensing a respective voltage potential provided to the respective load. A power monitors determines a type of circuit based upon a signal from at least one of the current sensors and a signal from the conductor, wherein the type of circuit includes at least one of a single phase circuit, a two phase circuit, and a three phase circuit. The power meter configures a set of registers corresponding to the determined type of circuit in a manner such that the configuring is different based upon each of the single phase circuit, two phase circuit, and three phase circuit suitable to provide data corresponding to the determined type of circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Cook, Michael Bitsch
  • Publication number: 20180136258
    Abstract: A power monitoring system includes a plurality of current sensors suitable to sense respective changing electrical current within a respective conductor to a respective load and a conductor sensing a respective voltage potential provided to the respective load. A power monitors determines a type of circuit based upon a signal from at least one of the current sensors and a signal from the conductor, wherein the type of circuit includes at least one of a single phase circuit, a two phase circuit, and a three phase circuit. The power meter configures a set of registers corresponding to the determined type of circuit in a manner such that the configuring is different based upon each of the single phase circuit, two phase circuit, and three phase circuit suitable to provide data corresponding to the determined type of circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Martin COOK, Michael BITSCH
  • Patent number: 9778290
    Abstract: A branch current monitor that includes reconfiguration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Moon, Michael Bitsch
  • Publication number: 20170254836
    Abstract: A power monitoring system includes a plurality of current sensors suitable to sense respective changing electrical current within a respective conductor to a respective load and a conductor sensing a respective voltage potential provided to the respective load. A power monitors determines a type of circuit based upon a signal from at least one of the current sensors and a signal from the conductor, wherein the type of circuit includes at least one of a single phase circuit, a two phase circuit, and a three phase circuit. The power meter configures a set of registers corresponding to the determined type of circuit in a manner such that the configuring is different based upon each of the single phase circuit, two phase circuit, and three phase circuit suitable to provide data corresponding to the determined type of circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Martin COOK, Michael BITSCH
  • Publication number: 20170185237
    Abstract: A branch current monitor that includes client level access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Michael BITSCH, Eric MOON
  • Publication number: 20170184638
    Abstract: A branch current monitor that includes reconfiguration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Eric MOON, Michael BITSCH
  • Publication number: 20170184641
    Abstract: A system for configuration of power meters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Martin COOK, Michael BITSCH
  • Patent number: 9689899
    Abstract: A power monitoring system includes a plurality of current sensors suitable to sense respective changing electrical current within a respective conductor to a respective load and a conductor sensing a respective voltage potential provided to the respective load. A power monitors determines a type of circuit based upon a signal from at least one of the current sensors and a signal from the conductor, wherein the type of circuit includes at least one of a single phase circuit, a two phase circuit, and a three phase circuit. The power meter configures a set of registers corresponding to the determined type of circuit in a manner such that the configuring is different based upon each of the single phase circuit, two phase circuit, and three phase circuit suitable to provide data corresponding to the determined type of circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Cook, Michael Bitsch
  • Patent number: 9506952
    Abstract: A power monitoring system includes a plurality of current sensors suitable to sense respective changing electrical current within a respective conductor to a respective load and a conductor sensing a respective voltage potential provided to the respective load. A power monitors determines a type of circuit based upon a signal from at least one of the current sensors and a signal from the conductor, wherein the type of circuit includes at least one of a single phase circuit, a two phase circuit, and a three phase circuit. The power meter configures a set of registers corresponding to the determined type of circuit in a manner such that the configuring is different based upon each of the single phase circuit, two phase circuit, and three phase circuit suitable to provide data corresponding to the determined type of circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Cook, Michael Bitsch
  • Patent number: 9335352
    Abstract: In a digital branch circuit monitor, compensation for the phase error is accomplished by selecting a voltage sampled at a time temporally offset from the sampling time of the current by an interval quantifying the phase shift of the secondary current relative to the primary current that is characteristic of a current transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin J. McCrea, Matthew Rupert, Michael Bitsch
  • Patent number: 9329996
    Abstract: The quantity of data stored in a branch circuit monitor and accessible by a data processing network is increased by logically dividing the monitor's memory into a plurality of registers each comprising a plurality of pages and addressing a page containing the desired data with an address corresponding to the identity of a page number stored in a page register and the identity of the register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Cook, Michael Bitsch
  • Publication number: 20160069933
    Abstract: A power monitoring system includes a plurality of current sensors suitable to sense respective changing electrical current within a respective conductor to a respective load and a conductor sensing a respective voltage potential provided to the respective load. A power monitors determines a type of circuit based upon a signal from at least one of the current sensors and a signal from the conductor, wherein the type of circuit includes at least one of a single phase circuit, a two phase circuit, and a three phase circuit. The power meter configures a set of registers corresponding to the determined type of circuit in a manner such that the configuring is different based upon each of the single phase circuit, two phase circuit, and three phase circuit suitable to provide data corresponding to the determined type of circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Martin COOK, Michael BITSCH
  • Publication number: 20140184198
    Abstract: A power monitoring system includes a plurality of current sensors suitable to sense respective changing electrical current within a respective conductor to a respective load and a conductor sensing a respective voltage potential provided to the respective load. A power monitors determines a type of circuit based upon a signal from at least one of the current sensors and a signal from the conductor, wherein the type of circuit includes at least one of a single phase circuit, a two phase circuit, and a three phase circuit. The power meter configures a set of registers corresponding to the determined type of circuit in a manner such that the configuring is different based upon each of the single phase circuit, two phase circuit, and three phase circuit suitable to provide data corresponding to the determined type of circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Martin COOK, Michael BITSCH
  • Patent number: 8624578
    Abstract: A tool for configuring a branch current monitor facilitates mapping the connections of branch circuits to voltage sources in a power distribution panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Rupert, Marc Bowman, Michael Bitsch, Martin Cook
  • Patent number: 8421639
    Abstract: A power meter for monitoring current in a power cable annunciates an alarm if the current transgresses one or more alarm current limits. False alarms are avoided by delaying the activation of the alarm for a delay interval following determination that current is flowing in the monitored conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Bitsch, Marc Bowman
  • Patent number: 8421443
    Abstract: A meter for measuring electric power consumed by a plurality of branch circuits includes interchangeable current transformers including respective transformer memories for storage of transformer characterization data and enables self-discovery of a phase shift induced by respective current transformers and the phase of current conducted by each branch circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Bitsch, Martin Cook, Matthew Rupert
  • Publication number: 20120278562
    Abstract: The quantity of data stored in a branch circuit monitor and accessible by a data processing network is increased by logically dividing the monitor's memory into a plurality of registers each comprising a plurality of pages and addressing a page containing the desired data with an address corresponding to the identity of a page number stored in a page register and the identity of the register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: VERIS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Cook, Michael Bitsch
  • Publication number: 20100308792
    Abstract: A tool for configuring a branch current monitor facilitates mapping the connections of branch circuits to voltage sources in a power distribution panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Matthew Rupert, Marc Bowman, Michael Bitsch, Martin Cook