US Patent Issued to Bayou Holdco on March 25 for "Strain testing rig and method of evaluating strain characteristics of specimen" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,364, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bayou Holdco Inc. (Houston).

"Strain testing rig and method of evaluating strain characteristics of specimen" was invented by Randall Perkins (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strain testing rig for an elongate specimen has a first grip for the first end portion of the specimen, a second grip for the second end portion of the specimen, and a drive mechanism for moving the first grip away from the second grip to stretch the specimen lengthwise. The first grip and the second grip are configured to maintain a grip on the specimen as the cross section of the specimen decreases during stre...