ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,614, issued on July 1, was assigned to Weir Group IP Ltd. (Glasgow, Great Britain).
"Sensing system" was invented by Craig Strudwicke (Molong, Australia), Christopher Haig (Portland, Ore.), Jason Betournay (Portland, Ore.) and Mahesh Gulavani (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing system for sensing operational parameters of equipment is described. The sensing system comprises: a plurality of intelligent mounting points, a plurality of sensors, each coupled to a respective mounting point, and a data harvester coupled to the plurality of sensors. Each intelligent mounting point is located at a position on the equipm...