ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,832, issued on April 1, was assigned to NEXTRACKER LLC (Fremont, Calif.).
"Systems for and methods of automatically scheduling and executing in situ tests on electrical and mechanical systems" was invented by Bruce Christopher Wootton (Alameda, Calif.), Rory Joseph Timar (San Francisco), Colin Patrick Murphy (Oakland, Calif.), Francesco Borrelli (Kensington, Calif.) and Allan Daly (Albany, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A testing platform tests an electrical and mechanical system such as an HVAC unit according to an algorithm that reduces the total testing time of the components of the system, while ensuring the safety of the ...