ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,001, issued on March 31, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE PLC (London).

"Method of monitoring a health state of a power semiconductor device by monitoring inverter case temperature during steady state loading" was invented by Mohamed Sathik Mohamed Halick (Singapore), Prasanth Sundararajan (Singapore), Viswanathan Vaiyapuri (Singapore) and Sivakumar Nadarajan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring health of a power semiconductor device includes: determining a steady state loading of the power semiconductor device; when it is determined that the power semiconductor device is under a steady state loading, monitori...