ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,105, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Beijing Institute of Control Engineering (Beijing).

"Variable-stroke self-adaptive adjustment quasi-zero stiffness device and parameter checking method" was invented by Li Yuan (Beijing), Li Wang (Beijing), Lin Li (Beijing), Yanpeng Wu (Beijing), Jun Zhong (Beijing), Qin Zhao (Beijing), Ran Zheng (Beijing), Jingya Qi (Beijing) and Chengyu Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable-stroke self-adaptive adjustment quasi-zero stiffness device includes an integrating sphere, a target, a collimator, a pointing measuring instrument, a disturbance source, an inertia simulation tooling, a q...