ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,273, issued on May 13, was assigned to RDI TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Knoxville, Tenn.).
"Apparatus and method for visualizing periodic motions in mechanical components" was invented by Jeffrey R Hay (Prospect, Ky.) and Mark William Slemp (Tellico Plains, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-contacting system for visualizing and analyzing periodic movements in machinery includes at least one video acquisition device that acquires sampling data as a video comprising a plurality of video image frames and a data analysis system including processor and memory, and a computer program operating in the processor to filter movements depicted i...