US Patent Issued to CUTSFORTH on Sept. 16 for "System and method for monitoring the status of one or more components of an electrical machine" (Washington, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,151, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CUTSFORTH INC. (Minneapolis).

"System and method for monitoring the status of one or more components of an electrical machine" was invented by Robert S. Cutsforth (Bellingham, Wash.), Dustin L. Cutsforth (Leawood, Kan.), Douglas Christopher Bruey (Seattle), Michael Lee Schaaf (Seattle) and David William Drury Harrison (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring the wear state of a carbon brush of a brush holder assembly in which the length of the carbon brush is diminished from an initial length as an end of the carbon brush wears away during use. The system includes a wea...