ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,010, issued on March 31, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).
"Device and method for identifying wear of an electromechanical device" was invented by Elmar Schaper (Lugde, Germany), Peter Scholz (Brakel, Germany) and Fabian Winkel (Paderborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device for identifying wear of an electromechanical device, the device comprising: a measuring device, which is configured to detect at least one predetermined operating parameter of the electromechanical device; and an evaluation device, which is configured to determine a current operating s...