ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,303, issued on July 14, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method for device monitoring" was invented by Kai Hencken (Lorrach, Germany), Massimo Scarpellini (Dalmine, Italy) and Marco Testa (Romano di Lombardia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for device monitoring includes: providing a plurality of fleet measurement data for at least one device, where the plurality of fleet measurement data includes a number of fleet device data measurements "Nfleet;" providing a plurality of device measurement data for a monitored device, where the plurality of device measurement data includes a number of monitor de...