ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,830, issued on March 31, was assigned to Pelstar LLC (McCook, Ill.) and Tovey Engineering Inc. (Phoenix).

"Systems and methods for scale calibration" was invented by Michael Ohler (Phoenix), Ken Harris (McCook, Ill.), Brian C. Skinner (McCook, Ill.) and Mike Tovey (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for scale calibration. One example embodiment provides a system for calibrating a scale. The system may generally include an actuator for applying force to a platform of the medical scale, and an electronic processor communicatively coupled to the actuator. The electronic processor may be configured to control an ...