US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 25 for "Automated electrical connector wear monitoring" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,925, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated electrical connector wear monitoring" was invented by Shawn Matthew Johnston (Rochester, Minn.), Michael John MacPherson (Elgin, Minn.), Clinton William Erie (Adams, Minn.), Eric J. Campbell (Rochester, Minn.) and Steven Charles Erickson (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A testing device that includes a resistance measuring device electrically communicating across connection points which electrically includes an electrical connector. The testing device also includes a threshold monitor analyzing the resistance being...