US Patent Issued to Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce on Feb. 10 for "Dual-truncated wheel kibble balance and determining absolute mass" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,645, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Dual-truncated wheel kibble balance and determining absolute mass" was invented by Darine El Haddad (Gaithersburg, Md.), Lorenz Harald Keck (Washington), Rene Bernd Theska (Ilmenau, Germany) and Frank Christian Seifert (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-truncated wheel Kibble balance includes: a stationary frame; a double balance wheel disposed on the stationary frame; a pair of guide members, such that one of the guide members is disposed on each opposing end of the...