ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,463, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to BIZERBA SE & Co. KG (Balingen, Germany).
"Slicing machine having a knife monitoring device" was invented by Ralf Steinhilber (Balingen, Germany) and Markus Bodmer (Messstetten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method monitors a slicing machine, which has a circular knife driven by an electric knife motor. The method includes: sensing a knife motor current or a temporal profile of the knife motor current from the electric knife motor; determining measurement data based on the knife motor current or the temporal profile of the knife motor current; and determining a current cutting charact...