ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,144, issued on July 15, was assigned to Schneider Toshiba Inverter Europe SAS (Pacy sur Eure, France).

"Method and system for monitoring operation status of an electric motor in real time" was invented by Nicolas Henwood (Carrieres sous Poissy, France), Matthias Machiels (La Saussaye, France) and Al Kassem Jebai (Vernon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring operation status of an electric motor in real time, including: reading a drive application signal of the electric motor; selecting a frequency to be observed; analyzing the frequency to be observed to obtain a spectrum thereof; analyzing the spectrum; and ...