ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,315, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to BIZERBA SE & Co. KG (Balingen, Germany).
"Retail weighing scale" was invented by Steffen Buhl (Winterlingen, Germany) and Steffen Keinath (Burladingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weighing scale has a housing accommodating a load cell, having fixed, deformation, movable portions. The fixed portion is connected to the housing, and the movable portion bears a spider having a platter. The deformation portion has a strain gauge measuring a weight acting on the platter. A strip light is attached to an external wall of the housing. A state machine of a controller depicts states of the we...