G01R 31/1236
Of surge arresters
Official title: {of surge arresters (monitoring overvoltage diverters or arresters H02H3/048)}
G01R31/1236 (Of surge arresters) appears on 35 US grants and 40 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01R- Granted patents
- 35
- Published applications
- 40
- Assignees
- 48
- Inventors
- 124
- Latest grant
- 2 Dec 2025
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| 2023 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026 | 0 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for diagnosing degree of deterioration of surge protector2 Dec 2025US 12,487,287 B2Samsung SDI.Co., Ltd.
- Arrester system of parallel-connected arresters, and method for detecting faults of the arresters4 Nov 2025US 12,461,136 B2Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
- Arrester performance monitoring and maintenance system20 Aug 2024US 12,068,589 B2Southern States, LLC
- Monitoring arrangement for electrical equipment, and monitoring system20 Feb 2024US 11,906,568 B2Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
- Apparatus and method for detecting resistive leakage current in surge arrester15 Aug 2023US 11,726,144 B2
- Deterioration diagnosis method and deterioration diagnosis device, for varistor24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287635 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Device and method for estimating electrical properties, thermal properties and expected life of a circuit protection element based on temperature measurements, and for estimating electrical characteristics of a system based on temperature measurements16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204898 A1MERSEN USA EP Corp.
- Method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for diagnosing degree of deterioration of surge protector5 Feb 2026US 2026/0036626 A1Samsung SDI.Co., Ltd.
- Protection apparatus for protecting a surge protection device22 Jan 2026US 2026/0024715 A1Citel
- Device and method for protecting a measurement circuit26 Jun 2025US 2025/0210977 A1Hitachi Energy Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for testing electronic devices93US 4,307,342 AWestern Electric Company, Inc. · 1981
- Method for detecting a failed ZnO disk in a surge arrester network13US 5,621,309 AElectric Power Research Institute, Inc. · 1997
- Apparatus for detecting degradation of characteristics of arresters11US 4,259,666 ATokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 1981
- Overvoltage protector10US 5,815,353 APilz GmbH & Co.KG · 1998
- Lighting arrester tester8US 5,087,885 AElectron Instruments · 1992