US Patent Issued to IDEMITSU KOSAN on Aug. 19 for "Lubricating oil degradation evaluation system and lubricating oil degradation evaluation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,039, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to IDEMITSU KOSAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Lubricating oil degradation evaluation system and lubricating oil degradation evaluation method" was invented by Hiroki Sekiguchi (Ichihara, Japan) and Genki Okuyama (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a lubricating oil degradation evaluation system and a lubricating oil degradation evaluation method capable of immediately evaluating degradation and a contamination state of a lubricating oil by including: a storage unit 10 that stores evaluation reference data 100 regarding evaluation of degradation of a lubricating oil; a creation unit 20...