US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Aug. 26 for "Bearing device and method for determining a load on the bearing device" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,752, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Bearing device and method for determining a load on the bearing device" was invented by James P. Leblanc (Lulea, Sweden) and Patrik Paajarvi (Sodra Sunderbyn, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing device includes a bearing having an inner ring and an outer ring, at least one of the inner and outer rings being capable of rotating concentrically relative to the other ring. A fiber optic sensor includes an array of optical strain gauges mounted on the inner ring or on the outer ring of the bearing and an optical interrogator is configured to measur...