ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,434, issued on March 25, was assigned to YANTAI JEREH PETROLEUM EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Yantai, China).

"Motor malfunction monitoring device, drive motor system and motor malfunction monitoring method" was invented by Kaishen Liu (Yantai, China), Shouzhe Li (Yantai, China), Haiping Xing (Yantai, China), Zhuqing Mao (Yantai, China), Weiwei Liu (Yantai, China), Liang Li (Yantai, China), Dawei Zhao (Yantai, China) and Jun Zhang (Yantai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor malfunction monitoring device for monitoring a malfunction of a drive motor, includes: vibration sensors for detecting for one or more components ...