US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Methods and systems for non-destructive evaluation of stator insulation condition" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,415, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for non-destructive evaluation of stator insulation condition" was invented by Robert Schroeter (Livonia, Mich.), Jackson Lenz (Southfield, Mich.), Boratha Tan (Detroit) and Ife Siffre (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for an insulation system of a stator. In one example, a method may include receiving images of the stator at an automated tool implemented at a processor of a computing system, the images depicting slots in in an inner surface of the stator, and processing the images using im...