ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,755, issued on June 23, was assigned to Marposs Societa' Per Azioni (Bentivoglio, Italy).

"Monitoring system for a movable component connected to a stationary component" was invented by Daniele Lanzoni (Cento, Italy), Alessandro Ruggeri (Bologna, Italy), Claudio De Simone (Due Carrare, Italy), Andrea Turrini (Bologna, Italy) and Christian Wurm (Pfaffenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for a mobile component, such as a rotating component, that is supported by a fixed component is described. The monitoring system includes two acoustic sensors positioned in the rotating component, two first amplifiers po...