US Patent Issued to SPINDRIVE on Nov. 3 for "Monitoring system and a method for monitoring condition of safety bearings of a magnetically levitated object" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,795, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SPINDRIVE OY (Lappeenranta, Finland).

"Monitoring system and a method for monitoring condition of safety bearings of a magnetically levitated object" was invented by Matti Hallivuori (Lappeenranta, Finland) and Alexander Smirnov (Lappeenranta, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for monitoring condition of one or more safety bearings (110) of a magnetically levitated object (107) comprises sensor equipment (101) for producing a sensor signal indicative of movement of the magnetically levitated object, a memory (102), and a data processing system (103) configured to: record,...