ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,034, issued on March 25, was assigned to Lenze SE (Aerzen, Germany).

"Method for monitoring a gearbox driven by an electric motor" was invented by Johannes Kuehn (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for monitoring a transmission driven by an electric motor with a motor control, in which load changes with zero crossing of the motor torque in the transmission are monitored, wherein at least one operating parameter of the electric motor and/or the motor control is measured and evaluated for monitoring the load change."

The patent was filed on Jan. 15, 2020, under Application No. 17/42...