ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,117, issued on May 27, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Bearing device, and associated machine and method" was invented by Benoit Louette (Saint Genough, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing device includes a bearing provided with an inner ring and an outer ring that rotate concentrically relative to one another. A vibration sensor measures vibrations of the bearing. The bearing device includes a first determining means (10) for determining values of at least a first statistical parameter and a second statistical parameter (P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6), a modelling means (11) for modelling the values of t...