ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,159, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (Erlangen, Germany).
"Measuring system and method for hardness measurement" was invented by Tino Hausotte (Erlangen, Germany), Sebastian Metzner (Nuremberg, Germany), Julien Schinn (Erlangen, Germany) and Marion Merklein (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measuring system comprises a stand having a base plate and a vertical column fastened thereto, a stand carriage that is movable along the vertical column and having a counter bearing for placing the object, a runner that is fastened to the stand carriage and is movable relative ...