ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,964, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Sensor roller" was invented by Defeng Lang (Delft, Netherlands), Andreas Clemens Van Der Ham (Utrecht, Netherlands), Alireza Azarfar (Utrecht, Netherlands), Dominik Fritz (Wurzburg, Germany), Stefan Engbers (Wuerzburg, Germany) and Juergen Reichert (Donnersdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a sensor roller for monitoring a lubrication condition of a roller bearing, the sensor roller providing a measuring unit for measuring at least a temperature, a speed change and a load of the roller, and a processing unit for generating a temperatu...