US Patent Issued to LORD on Oct. 21 for "Rotating machine component clearance sensing systems and methods" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,899, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LORD Corp. (Cary, N.C.).

"Rotating machine component clearance sensing systems and methods" was invented by Russell E. Altieri (Holly Springs, N.C.), Victor Zaccardo (Durham, N.C.), Paul R. Black (Apex, N.C.), Douglas Swanson (Cary, N.C.) and Daniel E. Kakaley (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for measuring a clearance between a rotating machine component and a sensor unit are disclosed. In some aspects, a system includes a sensor unit oriented to detect the rotating machine component as the rotating machine component rotates past the sensor unit, the sensor unit in...