ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,783, issued on June 3, was assigned to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT WIEN (Vienna).
"Method and device for preparing a tensile test" was invented by Mathis Nalbach (Vienna), Philipp Thurner (Vienna) and Georg Schitter (Vienna).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for preparing a tensile test on an elongate, more particularly fibrous, specimen, for example on a collagen fibril, comprising the steps of:-providing the elongate specimen;-attaching a handling particle to the elongate specimen;-providing a force sensor, on which a retainer for the handling particle on the elongate specimen is disposed;-connecting a handl...