US Patent Issued to Enerpac Tool Group on Sept. 22 for "Portable calibration tool" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,696, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Enerpac Tool Group Corp. (Milwaukee).

"Portable calibration tool" was invented by Robin Shaw (Whitley Bay, Great Britain) and Andrew Dumelow (North Shields, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool assembly configured to calibrate a hydraulic torque wrench and a method of calibrating a wrench. The tool assembly may generally include a tool including a head, a base, an arm extending between the head and the base, and a strain gauge configured to sense a strain exerted on the tool; and an electronic processor in communication with the strain gauge and configured to calculate a torque...