ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,128, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NHK Spring Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Measurement unit" was invented by Tsuyoshi Inuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Nakayama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shuji Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement unit includes: a ground portion forming a part of a line configured to provide continuity for grounding electric potential, the ground portion including a surface forming a plane at one end of the ground portion; a signal portion forming a part of a line configured to provide continuity for a signal for measurement, the signal portion including an end portion configured to ...