US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for monitoring drive unit bearings" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,545, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for monitoring drive unit bearings" was invented by Ehsan Jafarzadeh (Toronto), Hossein Sadjadi (Thornhill, Canada), Paola Scarassatti Sant Anna (Lake Orion, Mich.), Dezhi Li (Toronto), Sara Sadat Rahimifard (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Yu Cao (Courtice, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicles and systems and methods for health monitoring drive unit bearings in vehicles are provided. A system for health monitoring a drive unit bearing in a vehicle includes a sensor mounted to a drive unit of the vehicle and configured t...