ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,649, issued on July 8, was assigned to ADVANTEC INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Devon, Great Britain).
"Sensing tension in a rope" was invented by Peter Farthing (Devon, Great Britain) and Richard Day (Martock, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly (106) for sensing tension in a rope (102) comprises an arrangement of a housing (301) and a force sensor (302) located within an interior (305) of the housing (301) to provide for repeatable, accurate data to be obtained. The force sensor (302) is non-fixedly held in contact with an inner walling (306) of the interior (305) of the housing (301), in the region of a resiliently d...