ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,046, issued on May 27, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Device state evaluation system and evaluation method based on current signals" was invented by Meng-Lin Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Hung Pai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hung-Tsai Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chun-Chieh Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device state evaluation method based on current signals is applied to a target device that is powered on, the device state evaluation method includes: collecting a plurality of target current signals corresponding to the target device via an acquisition module; performing a signatur...