ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,371, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Electrical Heat Trace Group Ltd. (Kitchener, Canada).
"Systems and methods for real-time prioritization and management of heat trace circuit alarms" was invented by Eric de la Chevrotiere (Ayr, Canada) and Cian Howitt (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for real-time prioritization and management of heat trace circuit alarms are provided. A method includes importing heat trace circuit alarm data, ERP scheduling data, process data, operations data and weather data to establish a criticality matrix for prioritizing heat trace alarms. Alarms are assigned a critical...