US Patent Issued to THALES on Jan. 20 for "Device for securing screwed assemblies and method using the device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,162, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Device for securing screwed assemblies and method using the device" was invented by Jean-Louis Bigand (Vendome, France), Tanguy Blot (Villerable, France) and Karima Bikanimine (Gennevilliers, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for endorsing screwed assemblies, includes a screw gun intended to be handled by an operator, and computer equipment connected to the screw gun, the screw gun being equipped with measurement sensors sending information representative of the torque applied by the screw gun and an angle of rotation applied by the screw gun, the comp...