ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,335, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hottinger Bruel & Kjaer GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Parameterization aid for strain gages" was invented by Marco M. Schack (Rodemark, Germany), Michael Dorfel (Griesheim, Germany), Sandro Di Natale (Mannheim, Germany), Dmitri Tcherniak (Humlebaek, Denmark), Gianmarco Sironi (Bensheim, Germany) and Jan-Michael Kleinschmidt (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parameterization aid for parameterizing applied strain gages includes a handle having a front end, a head piece arranged at the front end of the handle and including a contact surface formed with two fixing grooves for recei...