ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,845, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).
"Monitoring a solenoid valve" was invented by Abbas Sabraoui (Rueil Malmaison, France), Ahmet Samed Basturk (Rueil Malmaison, France) and Oussama Abid (Rueil Malmaison, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a solenoid valve, including regularly repeated monitoring stages and each comprising the steps of driving the electric motor of the solenoid valve to modify the current position of it movable member; evaluating a monitoring value representative of an inrush current of the electric motor during the driving step; ...