ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,213, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland).
"Monitoring system for remotely monitoring a state of pole-mounted equipment in a power distribution or transmission grid, grid equipment having the monitoring system, and corresponding method" was invented by Yannick Maret (Dattwil, Switzerland), Xavier Kornmann (Lauchringen, Germany), Daniel Neeser (Thalwil, Switzerland), Stefano Bertoli (Wettingen, Switzerland), Ektor Sotiropoulos (Horgen, Switzerland), Martin Schick-Pauli (Zurich, Switzerland), Gian-Luigi Madonna (Otelfingen, Switzerland), Philipp Sommer (Zurich, Switzerland) and Alexander Fach (Boppelsen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* ...