US Patent Issued to ABB SCHWEIZ on July 28 for "Drive condition monitoring" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,235, issued on July 28, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Drive condition monitoring" was invented by Teemu Tanila (Helsinki), Olli Alkkiomaki (Helsinki) and Joni Siimesjarvi (Laihia, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for condition monitoring of an industrial drive. According to an aspect, the method includes: obtaining an image of a component surface of the industrial drive, wherein the image includes a first number of pixels; determining, using the image and at least one reference image for the component surface, a contamination index of the image, wherein the at least one refe...