US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on May 12 for "Image-based bearing failure detection" (Brazilian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,032, issued on May 12, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Image-based bearing failure detection" was invented by Balaji Chandrasekaran (Charlotte, N.C.), Rudoniel Correa Cury (Sao Paulo) and Gustavo dos Santos Gioria (Sorocaba, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive, from a front-end device communicatively coupled to the back-end device, one or more images of a bearing. A device may identify a number of defects of one or more defect classes on the bearing based on the one or more images using a deep learning classifier, wherein the deep learning classifier is trained on ...