ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,213, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring a switchgear includes multiple infrared cameras with fields of view; a processing unit; and an output unit. The cameras acquire multiple image data of a plurality of phases of the switchgear, and the ...