ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,289, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Kistler Holding AG (Winterthur, Switzerland).
"Shock wave fluid pressure transducer element" was invented by David Weber (Seuzach, Switzerland), Tobias Frommenwiler (Winterthur, Switzerland), Marco Laffranchi (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Andreas Wyss (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transducer element for the detection of a transverse transition pressure of a shock wave includes a body that extends along a longitudinal axis and includes a nose portion and a measurement portion disposed adjacent the nose portion, which tapers along the longitudinal axis from the measurement portion un...