ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,457, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"System for detecting debris in a fluid" was invented by Ravindra Gudi (Bangalore, India), Lingaraju L R (Bangalore, India), Prakash V S (Bangalore, India) and Seenu K (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system for detecting debris in a fluid may include one or more of an inductive sensor, a Hall sensor, a capacitive sensor, and a sensor processing system. The sensor processing, using the signals supplied from the one or more sensors, may do one or more of estimate a size of each debris that has interacted with the magnet ...