ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,278, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Extrapolating motor energy consumption based on digital twin" was invented by Teemu Tanila (Helsinki), Olli Alkkiomaki (Helsinki) and Joni Siimesjarvi (Laihia, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method comprising obtaining a set of process data associated with an industrial process, wherein the set of process data includes measured values associated with the industrial process over a time period; estimating at least an energy consumption of each motor of a plurality motors over the time period based at least partly on the set of process d...