ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,694, issued on Sept. 22.
"Apparatus and method for measuring torsion" was invented by Riseley D'Souza (Richmond, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for measuring torsion on a rotating shaft are disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining two or more optical encoder tapes of a predetermined pattern; securing the two or more tapes a predetermined distance apart on a shaft; for each of the one of the two or more tapes, placing a corresponding sensor proximate each tape; sensing a signal from each of the two or more tapes to obtain corresponding sensor data; and using the obtained sensor data, computing torsion on ...