US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 21 for "Tensile test fixture and alignment tool for testing soft polymeric foams" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,472, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Tensile test fixture and alignment tool for testing soft polymeric foams" was invented by Gokula Krishnan M (Karnataka, India) and Rajamanickam VS (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tensile test fixture for securing a polymeric foam test specimen is described. The tensile test fixture comprises a first gripping member including a first support surface, a first side wall and a second side wall. The first support surface, first side wall, and the second side wall form a first specimen end receiver that is receptive of a first end of ...