ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,513, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Voith Patent GmbH (Heidenheim, Germany).
"Electric machine including a monitoring device, and monitoring method" was invented by Babette Schwarz (Syrgenstein, Germany) and Alexander Jung (Lorch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine includes: a stator, which includes a radial inner edge and an opening; and a rotor, which defines a rotational axis and which includes a monitoring unit and a radial outer edge, the monitoring unit including a radar system, the radar system being a frequency-modulated continuous wave radar system which is configured for detecting a part of the sta...