ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,784, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Method for checking an assembly of at least three strain gauges and strain wave gearing" was invented by Kazuaki Kaneko (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes at least three strain gauges and is attached to an elastic transmission element of a strain wave gearing. The assembly is designed to measure a torque acting on the elastic transmission element. Output signals from each of the strain gauges are measured. The output signal of one of the strain gauges is predicted from the measured output signals o...