ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,971, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method of monitoring the enclosure cooling" was invented by Panagiotis Kakosimos (Vasteras, Sweden) and Olli Alkkiomaki (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for monitoring a thermal load in an enclosure including at least one electric device, the apparatus being configured to receive temperature data on a temperature outside the enclosure, temperature data on a temperature inside the enclosure and data indicative of heat generated by the at least one electric device into the enclosure, to determine a thermal resistance of the encl...