US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on Dec. 2 for "Device and method for the thermo-electro- mechanical characterization of microscale wires" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,156, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Device and method for the thermo-electro- mechanical characterization of microscale wires" was invented by Wonjune Choi (Tempe, Ariz.), Maxwell Kulak (Mesa, Ariz.) and Wonmo Kang (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for electro-thermo-mechanical tensile testing of wires is disclosed. The device includes a sample frame having upper and lower parts, with the upper part coupled to the lower part through a plurality of sacrificial supports, the upper and lower parts each having an ele...