US Patent Issued to The Heil on Aug. 25 for "Bearing pad monitoring systems and methods" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,812, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Heil Co. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Bearing pad monitoring systems and methods" was invented by John Forrest Smith (Fort Payne, Ala.) and Garrett J. Eckerl (Fort Payne, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refuse vehicle includes a telescopic arm, a sensor, and a processor. The telescopic arm includes an outer boom defining a bore, an inner boom received in the bore of the outer boom, and a bearing pad received in the bore and located between an exterior surface of the inner boom and an interior surface of the outer boom. The sensor is configured to output data indicating a position of a load-...