US Patent Issued to ATD-LabTech on June 24 for "Test pendulum arrangement for performing neck certifications and method for operating a test pendulum arrangement" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,198, issued on June 24, was assigned to ATD-LabTech GmbH (Niedernberg, Germany).

"Test pendulum arrangement for performing neck certifications and method for operating a test pendulum arrangement" was invented by Gerhard Pfeifer (Johannesberg, Germany) and Christoph Szingsnis (Aschaffenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A braking device system for a test pendulum arrangement to perform crash test dummy certifications, the braking device system including a braking device configured to brake a moving pendulum, on which a head and neck assembly of a crash test dummy is capable of being arranged, in a lower braking region, wher...