US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on March 25 for "Method and apparatus for monitoring of electric drives in an industrial system" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,706, issued on March 25, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus for monitoring of electric drives in an industrial system" was invented by Saurabh Kumar Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring an industrial plant, implemented by an apparatus, includes receiving operational data from each of a plurality of electric drives via a corresponding communication interface. The method further includes converting the operational data from a pre-determined data format to a machine-readable data format and determining a plurality of events for each of the plurality of dr...