ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,599, issued on July 1, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden) and SKF Australia Pty Ltd (Oakleigh, Australia).

"System for determining the wear of a bearing and associated method" was invented by Franck Landrieve (Fondettes, France), Lionel Martin (Kensington, Australia), Ghufran Jan (Oakleigh, Australia) and Farrukh Yaqub (Pakenham, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing includes a first ring and a second ring capable of rotating concentrically relative to one another and a system for determining wear of the bearing in a machine. The system for determining wear includes identifying means for identifying a s...