US Patent Issued to MINEBEA ACCESSSOLUTIONS ITALIA on Sept. 1 for "Car access assembly with two strain gauges oriented differently" (Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,446, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MINEBEA ACCESSSOLUTIONS ITALIA S.P.A. (Pianezza, Italy).

"Car access assembly with two strain gauges oriented differently" was invented by Alexandre Pieri (Pianezza, Italy), Massimo Frattini (Pianezza, Italy), Alberto Gramaglia (Pianezza, Italy), Luca Balzarini (Pianezza, Italy), Martin Winker (Erdweg, Germany) and Si Mohammed Arsalane (Erdweg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A car access assembly includes: a support blade extending according to a basis plane; a main strain gauge mounted on the support blade and configured to measure, within the basis plane, an elongation or a contractio...