Patents by Inventor Boris MARENDIC
Boris MARENDIC 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).
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Patent number: 11901726Abstract: A system and method for controlling an operation of devices in a power distribution network. The method determines that there is a power loss in the network as a result of a fault and one or more teams is not receiving power and performs a switching process in switching devices to prevent fault current from flowing to the fault. The method initiates a power restoration process to control the open and closed status of switching devices to isolate the fault and performs the power restoration process by the leader device in a division that the fault is occurring that includes opening and closing switching devices so that power is provided to all of the teams except the team that the fault is in. The method reconfigures the divisions based on which switching devices are now open and selects new leader devices based on the reconfiguration of the divisions.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Quinlan, Boris Marendic, Yoav Sharon
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Publication number: 20230291198Abstract: A system and method for estimating fault current using a sliding observation window that is shorter than one cycle. The method may also include providing a pickup level that defines a current threshold for opening a switch in response to detecting the fault current; estimating the fault current from current measurement signals; accumulating time from a reset zero position during the time that the estimation of the fault current is greater than the pickup level; subtracting time from the accumulated time during the time that the estimation of the fault current is less than the pickup level after time has been accumulated from when the estimation of the fault current is greater than the pickup level; detecting the fault current if the accumulated time reaches a predetermined accumulation time; and opening the switch if the fault current is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Boris Marendic, Yoav Sharon, John Seuss
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Patent number: 11719736Abstract: A method for fault location and isolation in a power distribution network, where the network includes a plurality of switching devices provided along a feeder, and at least one of the switching devices does not have voltage sensing capabilities. The method includes detecting an overcurrent event in the network from the fault and interrupting the overcurrent event by opening and then immediately locking out or subsequently reclosing and testing the fault. A count value is increased in each switching device that detected the overcurrent event. A message is sent from each of the switching devices that detected the overcurrent event and then detected the loss of voltage upstream to an upstream neighbor switching device. Current measurements in the messages, measured current by the devices and the counts values in the devices determine what devices are opened to isolate the fault.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Boris Marendic, Yoav Sharon
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Patent number: 11616358Abstract: A system and method for fault location and isolation in an electrical power distribution network, where the network includes a plurality of switching devices provided along a feeder. The method includes detecting an overcurrent event in the network from the fault and interrupting the overcurrent event by opening and then immediately locking out or subsequently reclosing and testing the fault. A count value is increased in each switching device that detected the overcurrent event. A count and current (C&I) message is sent from each of the switching devices that detected the overcurrent event and then detected the loss of voltage upstream to an upstream neighbor switching device. Current measurements in the C&I messages, measured current by the devices and the counts values in the devices determine what devices are opened to isolate the fault.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Boris Marendic, Michael Quinlan, Yoav Sharon
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Patent number: 11552466Abstract: A method for isolating a fault in an underground power distribution network. The network includes a power line, a plurality of transformers electrically coupled to and positioned along the power line, a first recloser connected to one end of the power line and a second recloser connected to an opposite end of the power line, where each transformer includes an upstream switching device and a downstream switching device, and where power is provided to both ends of the power line through the first and second reclosers and one of the switching devices is a normally open switching device. The method includes detecting overcurrent by some of the switching devices, detecting loss of voltage by some of the switching devices and sending clear to close messages to some of the switching devices to open and close certain ones of the switching devices to isolate the fault.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Quinlan, Boris Marendic, Alejandro Montenegro, Daniel Desmond, John French
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Publication number: 20220268826Abstract: A system and method for determining loads throughout a power distribution network having a plurality of switching devices provided along a feeder. The method includes measuring the current and/or voltage on one or both sides of the switching devices and calculating a power flowing through each of the switching devices and a load in each section using the current and/or voltage measurements at predetermined sample times. The method further includes storing a plurality of recorded current/voltage measurements or calculated powers flowing through each device for consecutive sample times. The method then determines a median load from the measurements and power flows and calculates a load in each of network sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Qing Guo, Michael Quinlan, Yoav Sharon, Boris Marendic
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Publication number: 20220178985Abstract: A method for fault location and isolation in a power distribution network, where the network includes a plurality of switching devices provided along a feeder, and at least one of the switching devices does not have voltage sensing capabilities. The method includes detecting an overcurrent event in the network from the fault and interrupting the overcurrent event by opening and then immediately locking out or subsequently reclosing and testing the fault. A count value is increased in each switching device that detected the overcurrent event. A message is sent from each of the switching devices that detected the overcurrent event and then detected the loss of voltage upstream to an upstream neighbor switching device. Current measurements in the messages, measured current by the devices and the counts values in the devices determine what devices are opened to isolate the fault.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Boris Marendic, Yoav Sharon
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Publication number: 20220181871Abstract: A system and method for fault location and isolation in an electrical power distribution network, where the network includes a plurality of switching devices provided along a feeder. The method includes detecting an overcurrent event in the network from the fault and interrupting the overcurrent event by opening and then immediately locking out or subsequently reclosing and testing the fault. A count value is increased in each switching device that detected the overcurrent event. A count and current (C&I) message is sent from each of the switching devices that detected the overcurrent event and then detected the loss of voltage upstream to an upstream neighbor switching device. Current measurements in the C&I messages, measured current by the devices and the counts values in the devices determine what devices are opened to isolate the fault.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Boris Marendic, Michael Quinlan, Yoav Sharon
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Publication number: 20220109295Abstract: A system and method for controlling an operation of devices in a power distribution network. The method determines that there is a power loss in the network as a result of a fault and one or more teams is not receiving power and performs a switching process in switching devices to prevent fault current from flowing to the fault. The method initiates a power restoration process to control the open and closed status of switching devices to isolate the fault and performs the power restoration process by the leader device in a division that the fault is occurring that includes opening and closing switching devices so that power is provided to all of the teams except the team that the fault is in. The method reconfigures the divisions based on which switching devices are now open and selects new leader devices based on the reconfiguration of the divisions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Quinlan, Boris Marendic, Yoav Sharon
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Publication number: 20220102973Abstract: A method for isolating a fault in an underground power distribution network. The network includes a power line, a plurality of transformers electrically coupled to and positioned along the power line, a first recloser connected to one end of the power line and a second recloser connected to an opposite end of the power line, where each transformer includes an upstream switching device and a downstream switching device, and where power is provided to both ends of the power line through the first and second reclosers and one of the switching devices is a normally open switching device. The method includes detecting overcurrent by some of the switching devices, detecting loss of voltage by some of the switching devices and sending clear to close messages to some of the switching devices to open and close certain ones of the switching devices to isolate the fault.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Quinlan, Boris Marendic, Alejandro Montenegro, Daniel Desmond, John French
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Publication number: 20210052244Abstract: A computer-implemented method for correcting measurement variability across a scanner field of view within an image scan, such as in PET imaging. The method operates on a slice-by-slice application and identifies and negates scan inconsistencies across the scanner field of view by normalizing values across the image scan as a function of reference signals measured across the field of view.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: ADM DIAGNOSTICS, INC.Inventors: Dawn C. Matthews, Ana S. Lukic, Boris Marendic, Randolph D. Andrews
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Patent number: 10820881Abstract: A computer-implemented method for correcting measurement variability across a scanner field of view within an image scan, such as in PET imaging. The method operates on a slice-by-slice application and identifies and negates scan inconsistencies across the scanner field of view by normalizing values across the image scan as a function of reference signals measured across the field of view.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: ADM DIAGNOSTICS, INC.Inventors: Dawn C. Matthews, Ana S. Lukic, Boris Marendic, Randolph D. Andrews
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Publication number: 20160166229Abstract: A computer-implemented method for correcting measurement variability across a scanner field of view within an image scan, such as in PET imaging. The method operates on a slice-by-slice application and identifies and negates scan inconsistencies across the scanner field of view by normalizing values across the image scan as a function of reference signals measured across the field of view.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Dawn C. MATTHEWS, Ana S. LUKIC, Boris MARENDIC, Randolph D. ANDREWS