ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,685, issued on June 9, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA INC. (Foxborough, Mass.).
"Smart controller for industrial asset health monitoring" was invented by Amitabha Bhattacharyya (Hyderabad, India), Srisuhasini Gottumukkala (Hyderabad, India), Prashant Chandanapurkar (Pune, India) and Bhaskar Sinha (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart controller continuously monitors data for determining in real time if there is a likelihood that an asset will be shut down and, if so, recommends a new setpoint at which the asset will continue to operate but will not lead to tripping of the system. The smart controller...