ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,531, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"System for monitoring a device" was invented by Joerg Ostrowski (Zurich), Patrik Reto Kaufmann (Baden, Switzerland), Stephan Wildermuth (Laudenbach, Germany), Ralf Gitzel (Manheim, Germany), Kai Koenig (Walldorf, Germany), Joerg Gebhardt (Mainz, Germany) and Boguslaw Samul (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring a device includes a temperature sensor, a processing unit, and an output unit. The temperature sensor acquires a temperature measurement during a heat-up phase of a component and provides a temperature measu...