ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,477, issued on July 22, was assigned to Wipotec GmbH (Kaiserslautern, Germany).

"Test body system" was invented by Jan Gottfriedsen (Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Germany) and Tobias Stellwagen (Kaiserslautern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a multi-element system for testing measuring systems, by means of which a train of several receiving elements and/or spacer elements lying one behind the other and/or side by side can be formed. The receiving elements have one or more pockets for receiving test weights."

The patent was filed on Dec. 18, 2020, under Application No. 17/786,466.

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