ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,497, issued on April 15, was assigned to DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Liaoning, China) and GUANGXI ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Guangxi, China).

"Pure-rolling generating measurement method and device for gear helix artifact" was invented by Siying Ling (Liaoning, China), Xiaoyan Li (Liaoning, China), Ming Ling (Liaoning, China), Honglin Ren (Liaoning, China), Zhimin Huang (Liaoning, China), Xiaolin Wang (Liaoning, China) and Liding Wang (Liaoning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pure-rolling generating measurement method and device for gear helix artifact is proposed, which use a dividing table to accurately control the linear rail...