US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on July 22 for "Sensorised wheel hub unit for vehicles, associated system and method for detecting final loads on wheels" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,200, issued on July 22, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Sweden).

"Sensorised wheel hub unit for vehicles, associated system and method for detecting final loads on wheels" was invented by Simone Baliva (Saluzzo, Italy), Marco Cambiano (Cumiana, Italy), Alessandro Ferrero (Turin, Italy) and Alessandro Garrone (Pino Torinese, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensorised wheel hub unit and a method for detecting, in real time, forces and moments applied to an outer ring of the wheel hub unit in which piezoresistive ceramic plates are made of one piece with welded metal plates housed within respective recesses formed in an outer sur...