US Patent Issued to Humanetics Innovative Solutions on Feb. 10 for "Pad assembly for anthropomorphic test device" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,470, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Humanetics Innovative Solutions Inc. (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

"Pad assembly for anthropomorphic test device" was invented by Zhenwen J. Wang (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Yuanhui Fu (South Lyon, Mich.), Joseph P. McInnis (New Hudson, Mich.) and John A. Arthur (Milan, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anthropomorphic test device includes a spine assembly, a pair of clavicle assemblies coupled to the spine assembly, a pair of arms with a respective one arm coupled to a respective one clavicle assembly, and at least one pad assembly having a clavicle portion mounted to a respective one of the ...