ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,550, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PAUL WURTH S.A. (Luxembourg).
"Travelling grate condition monitoring" was invented by Georg Struber (Frisange, Luxembourg), David Navez (Saint-Pierre, Belgium) and Pierre Van Dorpe (Arlon, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring the condition of a travelling grate machine including univocally identifying each pallet car; collecting a plurality of condition indicating parameters for the wheels, the grate bars, the car body and/or the side walls of the pellet car; attributing the collected condition indicating parameters to an individual pallet car; storing the c...