US Patent Issued to Regal Beloit America on March 25 for "Health monitor for an electric machine" (Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,441, issued on March 25, was assigned to Regal Beloit America Inc. (Milwaukee).

"Health monitor for an electric machine" was invented by Christopher Edwin Eugene Propp (Wausau, Wis.), Paul Steven Mullin (Yellow Springs, Ohio), Norman Carl Golm Jr. (Ft. Wayne, Ind.) and Daniel Edward Phillips (McDonald, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A health monitor circuit for an electric machine includes a plurality of sensors, a rectifier, a memory device, and a microprocessor. The plurality of sensors includes a current transformer configured to be electromagnetically coupled to an electrical conductor that feeds a stator winding of the elec...