ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,001, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).
"Apparatus and method for material testing" was invented by Andrew Kirby (High Wycombe, Great Britain), Audrey Briodeau-Line (Shinfield, Great Britain), Edward Dempsey (Guildford, Great Britain) and Graham Mead (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example material testing apparatus includes: guide means; sample holding means for holding a sample; force means for applying force to the sample; a crosshead arranged to support at least a portion of one or both of the sample holding means and the force means, wherein the crosshead is mov...