ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,621, issued on May 13, was assigned to Camso Inc. (Magog, Canada).
"Systems and methods for monitoring wheel assemblies" was invented by Tim De Witte (Brno, Czech Republic), Salvatore Messina (Magog, Canada) and Loic Meier (St-Lazare, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel assembly of a vehicle (e.g., a forklift or another material-handling vehicle) is monitored to obtain information regarding the vehicle, including information regarding the wheel assembly, which may be indicative of how the vehicle including the wheel assembly is used (e.g., a duty cycle of the vehicle and/or the wheel assembly), a state (e.g., a degree of we...