ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,261, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"System for monitoring a switchgear" was invented by Ralf Gitzel (Mannheim, Germany), Stephan Wildermuth (Laudenbach, Germany), Joerg Gebhardt (Mainz, Germany), Joerg Ostrowski (Zurich) and Patrik Kaufmann (Baden, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring a switchgear includes: an infrared camera for acquiring at least one infrared image of the switchgear; a processing unit for determining a pixel in the at least one infrared image associated with a hottest temperature, determining e pixels in the at least one infrared image associa...