ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,910, issued on April 22, was assigned to Woodward Inc. (Fort Collins, Colo.).
"Model-based health monitoring of electric motors" was invented by Ganga P. Jayaraman (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Steven Adams (Park Ridge, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, an electric motor health monitoring system that includes an estimator module configured to model one or more estimated motor values of an electric motor based on one or more motor control parameters and one or more motor control states, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a fault detector module c...