ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,658, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MASCHINENFABRIK REINHAUSEN GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"State analysis of an electrical operating resource" was invented by Erik Winkelmann (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method analyzes the state of an electrical operating resource. The method includes: applying a test voltage to the operating resource; acquiring a measurement signal at a connection point of the operating resource; ascertaining transfer parameters that characterize a signal transmission from a location of a partial discharge in the operating resource to the connection point depending on the measurement si...