US Patent Issued to Electronic Theatre Controls on May 12 for "Intelligent digital load cell transducer" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,982, issued on May 12, was assigned to Electronic Theatre Controls Inc. (Middleton, Wis.).

"Intelligent digital load cell transducer" was invented by Gerard Bijkerk (Enschede, Netherlands), Jacob E. Dunnum (Prairie Du Sac, Wis.) and Alex Groot (Arnhem, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load cell transducer including one or more strain gauges configured to generate a first signal indicative of a force applied to the load cell transducer and a sensor configured to generate a second signal indicative of an acceleration and an orientation of the load cell transducer. The load cell transducer further includes a controller commun...