ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,986, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CIDRA CORPORATE SERVICES INC. (Wallingford, Conn.).

"Detection of cyclone wear or damage using individual cyclone overflow measurement" was invented by Dylan Cirulis (Salt Lake City), Robert J. Maron (Middletown, Conn.), Christian V. O'Keefe (Durham, Conn.), Paul J. Rothman (Windsor, Conn.), David V. Newton (Madison, Conn.), Joseph Mercuri (Wallingford, Conn.) and Juan F. Medina (West Jordan, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus features a signal processor or signal processing module configured to: receive signaling containing information about an acoustic noise profile that is directly ...