ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,137, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Tektronix Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Defect analysis of electric motors using reference frames (DQZ components)" was invented by Krishna N H Sri (Bengaluru, India), Niranjan R Hegde (Siddapur, India), Shubha B (Bengaluru, India) and Christopher J. Loberg (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test and measurement instrument includes one or more processors to acquire first, second, and third phase drive signals applied to a three-phase motor. A motor drive analyzer performs a direct-quadrature-zero, DQZ, transformation on the acquired first, second, and third phase drive signals to produc...