ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,686, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP (Wilrijk, Belgium).
"Monitoring a health status of a solenoid" was invented by Hans Vande Sande (Wilrijk, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for estimating a health state of a solenoid valve including a solenoid for supporting a process control system. The method includes the steps of monitoring a current passing through the solenoid, determining a time period between an instant of initiating a state change of the solenoid valve and an instant when the time derivative of the current is discontinue, comparing the time per...