G01R 15/165
Measuring electrostatic potential
Official title: {measuring electrostatic potential, e.g. with electrostatic voltmeters or electrometers, when the design of the sensor is essential (electrometers with passively moving electrodes G01R5/28; measuring electrostatic fields G01R29/12; measuring charge G01R29/24; measuring in circuits with high internal resistance G01R19/0023)}
G01R15/165 (Measuring electrostatic potential) appears on 103 US grants and 82 published applications in this corpus.
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- 4 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Electrostatic charge variation based power failure detection4 Aug 2026US 12,699,115 B2STMicroelectronics International N. V.
- Voltage sensor6 Jan 2026US 12,517,155 B2Gruppa Companiy Tel Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoy Otvetstvennostyu
- Short circuit detection device and short circuit detection method2 Dec 2025US 12,487,293 B2Hioki E. E. Corporation
- Determination of an unbalanced load in a high-voltage system and reaction to the same11 Mar 2025US 12,248,006 B2Mercedes-Benz Group AG
- Electrical sensor assembly14 Jan 2025US 12,196,785 B2G & W Electric Company
- Electrostatic charge variation based power failure detection18 Sep 2025US 2025/0290955 A1STMicroelectronics International N. V.
- Electrical sensor assembly15 May 2025US 2025/0155475 A1G & W Electric Company
- Capacitive Voltage Test System10 Apr 2025US 2025/0116727 A1Kries Energietechnik GmbH & Co. KG
- Constructive system regarding a capacitive sensor23 Jan 2025US 2025/0027974 A1G & W Electric Company
- Short circuit detection device and short circuit detection method15 Aug 2024US 2024/0272239 A1Hioki E. E. Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Contactless technique for semicondutor wafer testing157US 4,812,756 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1989
- Sensor system for measuring biopotentials75US 6,961,601 B2Quantum Applied Science and Research, Inc. · 2005
- Electric potential sensor72US 8,054,061 B2The University of Sussex · 2011
- Electric field sensor62US 6,922,059 B2BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. · 2005
- Wide-dynamic range electrometer with a fast response57US 8,278,909 B2MKS Instruments, Inc. · 2012