ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,278, issued on May 6, was assigned to BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Beijing).

"Method, system, device and medium for measuring gear tooth profile roughness" was invented by Jiachun Lin (Beijing), Xinyu Fan (Beijing), Peng Wang (Beijing), Yunfei Li (Beijing), Baofeng He (Beijing) and Zhaoyao Shi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method, a system, a device and a medium for measuring gear tooth profile roughness. The method includes: obtaining design parameters of a target gear pair and test parameters of each tooth profile working point; fitting a measured surface profile and a theoretical to...