US Patent Issued to Troxler Electronic Laboratories on Sept. 16 for "Material performance testing including improved load detection" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,554, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Troxler Electronic Laboratories Inc (N.C.).

"Material performance testing including improved load detection" was invented by Shawn Brovold (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material testing apparatus includes an actuator to apply a force to a load head according to electronic control signals. The load head supplies a load to a material specimen in a first dimension. A plurality of load line displacement (LLD) reference points extend radially outward from the load head; and a plurality of LLD measuring devices correspond to the plurality of LLD reference points. Each LLD measuring...