ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,657, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NeoGenesys Inc. (Holly Ridge, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for remote monitoring of electrical equipment" was invented by Randall Douglas Thompson (North Topsail Beach, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a method for remote monitoring of electrical equipment includes acquiring a set of data points, each data point representing a temperature associated with a piece of electrical equipment or a component thereof, assigning each data point to one or more groups of data points, and defining an alarm metric for each group. Each group's alarm metric may be defined independent...