ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,613, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN WEBER FRANCE (Sucy-en-Brie, France) and SAINT-GOBAIN PLACO (Courbevoie, France).
"Instrument for measuring the force for spreading a paste" was invented by Melanie Arangalage (Paris), Julien Beaumont (Paris), Raul Leiva Munoz (Barcelone, Spain) and Luis Cardoso Da Silva (Aveiro, Portugal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument for determining the spreading capacity of a coating or a surface, including a plate on which a gripping system is secured, the tool including a measuring system configured to measure the coating to be spread, wherein the measuring system includes at leas...