US Patent Issued to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE UBERLANDIA-UFU on March 24 for "Instrumented pendulum for miniaturized Charpy impact test and Charpy impact machine comprising the instrumented pendulum" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,836, issued on March 24, was assigned to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE UBERLANDIA-UFU (MG, Brazil).

"Instrumented pendulum for miniaturized Charpy impact test and Charpy impact machine comprising the instrumented pendulum" was invented by Francisco Francelino Ramos Neto (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Denis Soares De Freitas (Uberlandia, Brazil), Marcelo Torres Piza Paes (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Rosenda Valdes Arencibia (Uberlandia, Brazil), Fernando Buiatti Rodrigues (Uberlandia, Brazil), Ricardo Reppold Marinho (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Sinesio Domingues Franco (Uberlandia, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by ...