ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,019, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Monitoring system for electrical motors insulation" was invented by Nasser Monif Alotaibi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ali Ahmed Alameer (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an electric motor. The electric motor includes one or more windings wrapped around a magnetic core within one or more stator slots of the electric motor, where each of the one or more windings comprises two or more coils. The system further includes a groundwall insulation layer wrapped around the one two or more coils, and a sensor couple...