ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,481, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Fault state detection apparatus" was invented by Ralf Gitzel (Mannheim, Germany), Stephan Wildermuth (Laudenbach, Germany), Joerg Gebhardt (Mainz, Germany), Joerg Ostrowski (Zurich, Switzerland) and Patrik Reto Kaufmann (Baden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fault state detection apparatus includes an input unit and a processing unit. The input unit receives condition monitoring data. The processing unit implements a trained machine learning algorithm to analyze the received condition monitoring data to determine if the received condition moni...