US Patent Issued to AMETEK on Jan. 28 for "Material property measurement device with immersion control" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,939, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to AMETEK INC. (Berwyn, Pa.).

"Material property measurement device with immersion control" was invented by Norman Kupzak (Dresden, Germany), James A. Salomon (Providence, R.I.), Andre Stark (Radebeul, Germany) and Max Fredrich (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for measuring properties of a material are disclosed. A device is configured to automatically identify a property of the material such as a surface of the material as a measuring head of a spindle engages the material as the spindle is lowered. After the material su...