US Patent Issued to NUtech Ventures, UT-BATTELLE on Sept. 29 for "In situ mechanical characterization of a sample strain" (Nebraska, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,129, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Neb.) and UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"In situ mechanical characterization of a sample strain" was invented by Ruiguo Yang (Lincoln, Neb.), Grayson Minnick (Lincoln, Neb.), Nickolay Lavrik (Knoxville, Tenn.), Jordan Daniel Rosenbohm (Lincoln, Neb.), Amir Monemian Esfahani (Lincoln, Neb.) and Bahareh Tajvidi Safa (Lincoln, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring a stress-strain curve in a sample, the method including: providing a structure including a first movable island supported by a first beam, a second movable island supported by a secon...