ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,820, issued on March 24, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System for monitoring a rolling bearing, associated rolling bearing and method" was invented by Alireza Azarfar (Utrecht, Netherlands), Andreas Clemens Van Der Ham (Utrecht, Netherlands), Dominik Fritz (Wurzburg, Germany), Stefan Engbers (Wuerzburg, Germany), Juergen Reichert (Donnersdorf, Germany) and Defeng Lang (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system is proposed.The monitoring system comprises a rolling bearing comprising a first ring and a second ring (7, 8) capable of rotating concentrically relative to one another, a...