ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,120, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ADERIS ENERGY LLC (Cornelius, N.C.).

"System and method for remote inspection of equipment mechanical dial gauge readings, electrical termination and bushing condition monitoring" was invented by Adam Will Foodman (Charlotte, N.C.), Bradley Allan Micallef (Davidson, N.C.) and Olee Joel Olsen Jr. (Cornelius, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to locally monitor, and report to a remote monitoring system, specific physical conditions of equipment that provide early indication of failure conditions, including but not limited to: temperature, level of fluids, pressure, temperature, the...