ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,529, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for analyzing brake wear of conveyor lift table motor to predict downtime events" was invented by Alex Subramanian (Bengaluru, India), Adriano Bardelin (Macomb, Mich.) and Suchit S. Walekar (Rochester, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for positioning a product along an assembly line including: a motor having a brake and an output shaft in cooperation with a platform by way of a linkage, rotation of the output shaft in a first direction rotates the linkage to an upper position to raise the platform and rotation of t...