ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,240, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Dynamic pendulum thrust measurement system and method" was invented by Yueh-Heng Li (Tainan City, Taiwan), Hsun-Chen Hsieh (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chao-Wei Huang (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Ping-Han Huang (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic pendulum thrust measurement system and a method are disclosed to measure a thrust provided by a thruster. The system provides a swing arm, a driving device and a data capturing device. The thruster is disposed on a swing end of the swing arm to form a pendulum structure. The driving ...