ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,499, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUANTUM IR TECHNOLOGIES LLC (South Jordan, Utah).
"Rotary kiln brick layer thermal monitoring systems" was invented by Mark Israelsen (draper, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring brick in a rotary kiln includes an infrared sensor and a computing system configured to: obtain a digital model of a brick layer of a rotary kiln having a plurality of bricks, wherein the digital model of the brick layer is based on a measured brick thickness correlated with a measured infrared temperature for each brick; obtain infrared data of the rotary kiln with the at least one infrared imagi...