US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on July 21 for "Device and method for clamping a test piece" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,452, issued on July 21, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Device and method for clamping a test piece" was invented by Malo Rosemeier (Bremerhaven, Germany), Alexandros Antoniou (Bremerhaven, Germany) and Thomas Gebauer (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for clamping a test piece (1, 1', 1"), comprising an upper clamping rail (3U) and a lower clamping rail (3L) for horizontally clamping an upper end and a lower end of the test piece (1, 1', 1"). In addition, it comprises vertical left clamping edges (4L, 4L') and vertical righ...