ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,874, issued on March 31, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Tensile testing machine and method for controlling tensile testing machine" was invented by Tohru Matsuura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test result of a tensile test and a measurement result of a natural frequency are easily associated with each other. A high-speed tensile testing machine 1 is a tensile testing machine that executes a tensile test by applying a test force F to a test target TP. The machine includes: a determination unit 513 that determines a timing at which a striking force FD is applied to a testing machine body 2; a striking...