ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,425, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SETEC Corp. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and TIPSY INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and measuring device for measuring reaction force and torque of resistance mechanism on flywheel" was invented by Han-Rong Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yen-Cheng Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Daniel Dallas Tsai (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for measuring a tangential reaction force of a resistance device on a flywheel, and the reaction force multiply the radius of the flywheel to obtain a torque, such that the torque multiply a gear ratio is the torque to overcome ...