US Patent Issued to Quartus Engineering on Aug. 4 for "Driving devices and methods for determining material strength in real-time" (California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,129, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Quartus Engineering Inc. (San Diego).

"Driving devices and methods for determining material strength in real-time" was invented by Wayne Anderson (Malibu, Calif.), John J. Perry (Malibu, Calif.), Michael M. Karch (Malibu, Calif.), Anthony D. Truscott (Las Vegas) and Edward J. Dohring (Malibu, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including an instrument having a working tool configured to penetrate a tissue; a sensor configured to generate in real-time one or more torque signals related to torque of the working tool; a controller in operative communication with the sensor and configured ...