ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,832, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TCL ZHONGHUAN RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Tianjin, China).

"Monitoring mechanism, application thereof, and slicing machine with the monitoring mechanism" was invented by Xuzhou Yang (Tianjin, China), Haoming Zhang (Tianjin, China), Rui Wu (Tianjin, China), Chen Wei (Tianjin, China) and Pengzhan Zhao (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring mechanism at least includes a monitoring unit, the monitoring unit is disposed in a slicing chamber and is configured to continuously monitor a state of a wire mesh and have no contact with the wire mesh. The monitoring mechanism ...