ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,995, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc..

"System and method for eccentricity severity estimation of induction machines using a sparsity-driven regression model" was invented by Dehong Liu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Xiangtian Zheng (College Station, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fault detection system of eccentricity severity of an induction machine including a rotor and stator is provided. The fault detection system includes a sensor interface configured to acquire sensor signals from sensors arranged at predetermined positions of the induction machine, wherein the sensor signals are...