US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on March 11 for "Estimation of life of switching devices" (Indian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,016, issued on March 11, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Estimation of life of switching devices" was invented by Deepak Balaji Somayajula (Maharashtra, India), Swati Narula (New Delhi), Sravanthi Srikantam (Andhra Pradesh, India), Satish Mohanty (Pune, India), Chaitanya Pradeep Bhalwankar (Pune, India), Stuart John Moody (Portchester, Great Britain), Daniel Peck (Southampton, Great Britain) and Ranjith Kumar Sreenilayam Raveendran (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A health signature of each switching device in a control system is estimated using system parameters such as a DC-link voltage, t...