ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,735, issued on July 29, was assigned to C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni (Orbassano, Italy).

"Method for use in measuring a property of an automobile component" was invented by Marika Falciano (Turin, Italy), Paolo Chiappero (Turin, Italy), Graziano Brocani (Turin, Italy), Fabio Scaffidi Muta (Turin, Italy) and Valentina Brunella (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring a degree of cross-linking of a component of elastomeric material obtained as a result of a hot-forming process, includes a preliminary calibration step in which a plurality of samples are provided, made of the same material as the compon...