US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on July 28 for "Contactor damage and diagnostics" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,321, issued on July 28, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Contactor damage and diagnostics" was invented by Jacob William Green (Clackamas, Ore.) and Brandon William Fisher (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes interpreting a contactor open event and a contactor load value for a contactor positioned on a motive power circuit for a mobile application, determining that a contactor opening event under load has occurred in response to the contactor open event and the contactor load value, and updating a contactor wear condition in response to the contactor opening event under load, wherein...