ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,241, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for status diagnosis of machine tools" was invented by Munyoung Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Jae Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung-Chan Na (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong Hwan Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seung Hyub Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to increase the accuracy of status or failure diagnosis of machine tools and reduce the time and costs required for data collection and algorithm development for diagnosis, sensors are mounted on specific elements of...