US Patent Issued to LORD on Feb. 17 for "Sensing system for detecting rubs events or wear of an abradable coating in turbo machinery" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,357, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LORD Corp. (Cleveland).

"Sensing system for detecting rubs events or wear of an abradable coating in turbo machinery" was invented by Paul R. Black (Apex, N.C.), Victor Zaccardo (Durham, N.C.), Russell Altieri (Holly Springs, N.C.) and Lee Wakefield (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing system and method for detecting wear of an abradable layer on a stationary engine casing is provided. The system is capable of measuring the abradable thickness of the abradable layer by embedding abradable sensor in the abradable layer and measuring the changing electrical properties as the abrad...