ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,004, issued on April 29, was assigned to TIANJIN EMAGING TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Tianjin, China).

"Method and apparatus for detecting wear data of protective bearing" was invented by Honglei Sha (Tianjin, China), Tianye Yu (Tianjin, China), Shenping Hong (Tianjin, China), Cunyu Yi (Tianjin, China), Wanhu Liu (Tianjin, China), Kai Li (Tianjin, China) and Jingchao Han (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for detecting wear data of a protective bearing, which relates to the technical field of a magnetic suspension bearing, and includes: firstly, a displacement of a rotor is acquired in a current falling p...