ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,662, issued on July 15, was assigned to Moog GmbH (Boblingen, Germany).

"Method for determining a present state of wear of a hydrostatic machine" was invented by Dirk Becher (Nufringen, Germany) and Jacques Philippe Schraft (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for determining a present state of wear of a hydrostatic machine during the operation of the hydrostatic machine. The hydrostatic machine comprises a drive with variable rotational speed and a hydrostatic pump, wherein the drive is designed to drive the hydrostatic pump for generating a volume flow of a fluid, and wherein ...