ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,079, issued on May 27, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Apparatus for monitoring a switchgear" was invented by Subanatarajan Subbiah (Neulussheim, Germany), Ralf Gitzel (Mannheim, Germany) and Benedikt Schmidt (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for monitoring a switchgear includes: an input unit; a processing unit; and an output unit. The input unit is provides the processing unit with a monitored infra-red image of a switchgear. The processing unit implements a machine learning classifier algorithm to analyse the monitored infra-red image and determine if there is one or more anomal...