US Patent Issued to Evoqua Water Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Bearing wear monitoring device for circular clarifier drive" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,993, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Evoqua Water Technologies LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Bearing wear monitoring device for circular clarifier drive" was invented by Jeffrey P Germait (West Allis, Wis.) and Allen Lepak (Mukwonago, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring bearing wear in a circular clarifier drive is provided. The system includes a drive motor comprising at least one gear operatively coupled to at least a bridge platform, skimmer, and header of the circular clarifier drive. The at least one gear is rotatable within a housing of the circular clarifier drive on a plurality of bearings positioned therebetwee...