ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,618, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Schneider Electric USA Inc. (Andover, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for identifying and managing stress conditions, risk state or aging state associated with capacitors" was invented by Johannes Menzel (Saint Hilaire du Touvet, France), Ravindra Kulkarni (Bengaluru, India) and Jean-Marc Lupin (Pers-Jussy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying and managing stress conditions, risk state or aging state associated with capacitors associated with electrical equipment in an electrical power system are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a method for identifying and man...