ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,949, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Unspace LLC (Houston).

"Testing apparatus and methods for measuring forces between objects" was invented by Phillip Scott Lentz (Port Aransas, Texas), Benjamin Peters (Houston), Kevin Stephens (Houston) and Evan Laske (League City, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to testing apparatus and methods for measuring forces between objects. The apparatus and methods are used to detect a change in the local gravitational constant resulting from non-Newtonian effects of General Relativity and/or a novel radial dilation influence. Detection is facilitated by m...