ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,349, issued on July 29, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).
"Surface roughness measurement system" was invented by Salma Abdulaziz (Dun Laoghaire, Ireland), Keith Nolan (Mullingar, Ireland), Johannes Van De Belt (Ballsbridge, Ireland) and James Ryle (Rathgar, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is known for a product to be mass produced by way of a manufacturing process. Typically, a quality control step is used in a manufacturing process to monitor the quality of manufactured products. However, quality control procedures in manufacturing are typically labour intensive. A technician or other person must inspe...