ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,010, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Medium voltage switching or controlgear monitoring system" was invented by Ralf Gitzel (Mannheim, Germany), Ido Amihai (Bensheim, Germany), Aydin Boyaci (Karlsruhe, Germany), Marcel Dix (Mannheim, Germany) and Joerg Gebhardt (Mainz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium voltage switchgear or controlgear monitoring system includes: an infrared camera; and a processing unit. The infrared camera is mounted within a medium voltage switchgear or controlgear. The infrared camera is configured to acquires an infrared image including image data of two or ...