ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,724, issued on July 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MARINE MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Nagasaki, Japan).

"Vibration monitoring device, turbocharger, and vibration monitoring method" was invented by Tadashi Yoshida (Tokyo), Hidetaka Nishimura (Nagasaki, Japan), Akifumi Tanaka (Nagasaki, Japan), Shinji Ogawa (Tokyo), Isao Tomita (Tokyo), Tohru Suita (Tokyo) and Ryoji Sasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration monitoring device includes: a rotation sensor for outputting a rotation signal synchronized with rotation of a rotational shaft; an output device for outputting a filter command value corresponding ...