ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,285, issued on July 29, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Device management system for inverter compressor" was invented by Yuki Tamura (Tokyo), Nobukazu Kosone (Tokyo) and Keisuke Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device management system for an inverter compressor is a device management system for an inverter compressor provided with a motor to be driven by an inverter, and includes: a partial discharge detector that detects a voltage of the motor to detect a partial discharge that occurs in the motor; and a determination module that determines whether there is a risk of occurrence of the partial discha...