ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,339, issued on July 21, was assigned to ANSYS INC. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"Methods and devices for computing a state of an electromechanical object" was invented by Wenkai Shang (Ratingen, Germany), Davide Frigerio (Carugate, Italy), Anna Margareta Kvarnstrom (Eklidsvagen, Sweden) and Devin Earl Crawford (Holzkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for simulating an electromechanical object are described. An electromagnetic solver is invoked for an electromagnetic model of the object to generate an electromagnetic loss of the object an operating temperature. A temperature dependent electromagnetic loss of ...