ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,520, issued on July 1, was assigned to Turnco LLC (Spring, Texas).

"Laser and synthetic profilometry of a positive displacement motor (PDM) and ML methods, systems, and computer medium storing instructions for predicting PDM attributes" was invented by Lonnie L. Smith II (Cleburne, Texas), Orson M. Terrill (Houston) and William D. Murray (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laser and synthetic profilometry of positive displacement motors (PDM) and ML methods, systems, and computer medium storing instructions for predicting PDM attribute(s). Laser profilometric scans (LPS) and mechanical stator minor ID (SMID) measurements fr...