US Patent Issued to Schmidt Custom Floors on Sept. 29 for "Device for detecting impact on flooring" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,123, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Schmidt Custom Floors Inc. (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Device for detecting impact on flooring" was invented by Tim Flagstad (Waukesha, Wis.) and Ronald J. Pulvermacher (Cottage Grove, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for detecting mechanical impact on flooring material including (1) a case configured to be embedded and securely attached in an underside cavity of a piece of the flooring material and (2) a circuit board securely mounted in the case, the circuit board including (i) an accelerometer mounted on the circuit board, configured to measure acceleration of the piece of flooring mat...