ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,829, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MAGNA Powertrain GmbH & Co KG (Lannach, Austria).

"Device and method for determining a remaining service life of an electric machine" was invented by Markus Kratzer (Linz, Austria), Richard Remplbauer (Neuhofen an der Krems, Austria) and Johannes Winklinger (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for determining a remaining service life of an electric machine using an insulation measuring device and an electric machine, the insulation measuring device having at least one electric voltage source and the at least one electric voltage source of the insulatio...