US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on April 15 for "Torque measurement using metamaterial tracks aligned by low-friction structure" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,560, issued on April 15, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Torque measurement using metamaterial tracks aligned by low-friction structure" was invented by Dirk Hammerschmidt (Finkenstein, Austria) and Christof Michenthaler (Feistritz an der Gail, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque measurement system includes a first rotatable carrier structure and a second rotatable carrier structure mechanically coupled to a shaft; a first metamaterial track coupled to and configured to co-rotate with the first rotatable carrier structure; a second metamaterial track coupled to and configured to co-rotate wi...