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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Zahid F. Mian, Loudonville, NY (US);
Ronald W. Gamache, East Greenbush, NY (US);
Robert MacAllister, Mechanicville, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Electronic Machines Corp., Albany, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 1/124 ; G01B 1/130 ; G01C 3/00 ; G01N 2/147 ; G01V 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 1/124 ; G01B 1/130 ; G01C 3/00 ; G01N 2/147 ; G01V 8/00 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a wheel measurement method and system to measure an attribute of a wheel. Light illumination devices and light sensing devices provide wheel data. A computer then performs a calculation on the wheel data to measure the attribute of the wheel.