US Patent Issued to APEX BRANDS on Sept. 2 for "Torque wrench with strain gauges" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,571, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to APEX BRANDS INC. (Apex, N.C.).

"Torque wrench with strain gauges" was invented by Minglin Shi (Shanghai), Henglian Luo (Shanghai) and Cheng Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example torque wrench is provided. The example torque wrench may include a drive head configured to engage with a tool for rotating a fastener. The drive head may have a drive axis about which the drive head rotates when rotating the fastener. The torque wrench may also include a deflection member coupled to the drive head and an outer body coupled to the deflection member at a first loading point and a secon...