US Patent Issued to Kinematics on March 18 for "Systems and methods of use of slew drivers with sensor carriers" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,157, issued on March 18, was assigned to Kinematics LLC (Phoenix).

"Systems and methods of use of slew drivers with sensor carriers" was invented by Adam Plesniak (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Peter Hruby (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Brandon Larson (Lakewood, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are novel slew drive components and systems. In some cases, a slew drive system can comprise a sensor configured to measure deformation in a deformation element of a sensor carrier component, which can result from axial displacement of a worm gear of the slew drive system. In some cases, measured deformation of a deformation eleme...