US Patent Issued to Andritz on June 2 for "Seal strip wear monitoring systems and assemblies therefor" (Wisconsin, West Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,229, issued on June 2, was assigned to Andritz Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Seal strip wear monitoring systems and assemblies therefor" was invented by Wesley C. Van Pelt (Appleton, Wis.), Christopher Mason (Bunker Hill, W.va.), Brandon Kilbourne (Appleton, Wis.) and Jacob Speckman (Neenah, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal strip and wear monitoring system includes: a seal strip having an upper surface; and a wear monitoring system. The wear monitoring system includes: a sensing portion comprising a plurality of electrical traces, each of the electrical traces including an uppermost portion that is generally parallel with and is ...