ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,447, issued on April 21, was assigned to CARRIERE INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY Ltd. (Toronto).

"Monitoring wear assembles, systems, and methods for mining equipment" was invented by Pierre R. Levesque (Sudbury, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for monitoring wear and usage along a portion of a wear surface for earth moving equipment includes a monitoring assembly to detect a characteristic pertaining to wear or usage in a wear part for excavating equipment and transmit the detected characteristic as information, wherein the monitoring assembly includes a bolt having a standard head, a coupling nut that captures the bol...