US Patent Issued to Siemens on April 29 for "Method for determining the state of an electrical switchgear assembly, monitoring unit for an electrical switchgear assembly, and electrical switchgear assembly" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,967, issued on April 29, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for determining the state of an electrical switchgear assembly, monitoring unit for an electrical switchgear assembly, and electrical switchgear assembly" was invented by Ivana Mladenovic (Seukendorf, Germany) and Anne Bauer (Rothenbach a.d. Pegnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include methods for determining the state of an electrical switchgear assembly. The method may include: measuring an electric current and a voltage dropped across the switchgear assembly; ascertaining a time interval of an arc occurring d...