ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,541, issued on April 15, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL IBERIAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (INL) (Braga, Portugal).

"Method and system for non-invasive vibration-based condition monitoring of a machine" was invented by Ricardo Alexandre De Matos Antunes Ferreira (Braga, Portugal), Tim Bohnert (Braga, Portugal) and Elvira Paz Perez De Colosia (Braga, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for non-invasive vibration-based condition monitoring of a machine placed on a physical frame of reference, using a time-domain broadband magnetoresistive sensor having a sensor transfer function of electric resistance versus magn...