ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,408, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Control system and method for smooth characterization of cyclic stress" was invented by Gayathri Indra Seenumani (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Kalpesh Singal (Ballston Spa, N.Y.), Harry Kirk Mathews Jr. (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Etika Agarwal (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system and method obtain a stress profile of a device disposed onboard industrial equipment. The stress profile represents a stress characteristic of the device over time during operation of the industrial equipment. The system and method determine a smooth z...