ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,653, issued on July 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Bearing diagnosis apparatus, bearing diagnosis method, and computer readable recording medium" was invented by Shohei Kinoshita (Tokyo), Shigeru Kasai (Tokyo) and Yu Kiyokawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing diagnosis apparatus 1 that accurately diagnoses the state of a bearing includes: an extraction unit 2 configured to extract a feature amount using first index information indicating a response of a structure 21 to an external force and second index information indicating a response, to the external force, of a bearing 23 provided to the structure 21; and an ...