US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma on Nov. 4 for "Apparatus and method for applying tensile force to samples" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,998, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.).

"Apparatus and method for applying tensile force to samples" was invented by Trevor Looney (Tulsa, Okla.), Michael F. Schmitz (South Bixby, Okla.) and Jeffrey S. Volz (Norman, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test apparatus and method for applying one or more tensile loads to a sample and for testing attributes of the sample exposed to the one or more tensile loads. The test apparatus includes a housing that has a plurality of interconnected sides that contain the sample during testing and provide a rigid support structure ...