US Patent Issued to OG Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Method and apparatus for determining the speed of travel of elongated bars with surface texture" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,817, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to OG Technologies Inc. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Method and apparatus for determining the speed of travel of elongated bars with surface texture" was invented by Tzyy-Shuh Chang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Hsun-Hau Huang (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for determining a speed of travel of an elongated bar with a textured surface are provided. The apparatus includes a sensor assembly that generate signals induced by the motion of the surface texture of the elongated bar. A computing unit collects the signals and carries out the computation for the speed of travel of ...