US Patent Issued to JOY GLOBAL SURFACE MINING on June 17 for "System and method for collecting operational vibration data for a mining machine" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,491, issued on June 17, was assigned to JOY GLOBAL SURFACE MINING INC (Milwaukee).

"System and method for collecting operational vibration data for a mining machine" was invented by Brian N. White (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration monitoring system for a mining machine, the mining machine including a plurality of movable components and one or more motor operatively coupled to the plurality of movable components. The system including a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors positioned at one of a plurality of measurement points on at least one of the movable component of the industrial machin...