ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,429, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Strain amount detecting device" was invented by Yuki Isoya (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a strain amount detecting device capable of reducing power consumption by determining a timing of measuring strain and a timing of transmitting a result of the measurement by itself. A strain amount detecting device according to the present invention includes a state determination unit that determines an operation state of an object according to a feature amount of a change with time of a measure...