US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on May 12 for "Methods and apparatus to perform load measurements on flexible substrates" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,044, issued on May 12, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Methods and apparatus to perform load measurements on flexible substrates" was invented by Philippe Levesque (Foxboro, Mass.), Alexander T. Carbone (Norton, Mass.) and Christopher Joyce (Braintree, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example flexible substrate testing system includes: a first substrate support structure configured to hold stationary a first portion of a flexible substrate under test; a second substrate support structure configured to hold a second portion of the flexible substrate; an actuator configured to move the second substrate...