ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,384, issued on June 3, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"System, apparatus, and method of determining condition of a bearing" was invented by Sudev Nair (Karnataka, India) and Vincent Malik (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus, and method of determining a condition of at least one bearing in a system are provided. The method includes receiving operation data associated with the system from one or more sensing units associated with the system and determining an operation profile of the at least one bearing from the operation data. The operation profile includes a vibration response, a thermal response, and/or ...