US Patent Issued to Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce on Feb. 3 for "Second generation NIST kibble balance and determining absolute mass" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,843, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Second generation NIST kibble balance and determining absolute mass" was invented by Leon Shih Chao (Gaithersburg, Md.), Gordon Allan Shaw III (Takoma Park, Md.), Stephan Schlamminger (Silver Spring, Md.) and Yusi Cao (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second generation NIST Kibble balance includes: a main body including a main body fulcrum node; a lever bar in mechanical communication with the main body and that pivots about the main body fulcrum node; a central flexural b...