ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,389, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Tyto Robotics Inc. (Gatineau, Canada).

"Apparatus and method for fluid-screw system property measurement" was invented by Charles Blouin (Gatineau, Canada), Baiyun Tang (Gatineau, Canada) and Dominic Robillard (Gatineau, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a sensor mount apparatus for measuring at least one property of a screw-fluid system. A specific device under test is mounted to a mounting base; a sensor unit selectively connected to said mounting base, for measuring at least one of a force load or a moment load transferred to the mounting base; a load limiter is selecti...