US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on April 14 for "Test sample for measuring adhesive strength under tension" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,666, issued on April 14, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy.

"Test sample for measuring adhesive strength under tension" was invented by Thomas S Ramotowski (Tiverton, R.I.), Anthony S Poirier (Westport, Mass.) and Eric A Warner (Coventry, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test sample is provided for measuring tensile strength of an adhesive bond between two identical substrates. Each identical substrate has first and second identical ends. An end from one substrate is aligned with an end from the other substrate so that they completely overlap and abut each other. Adhesive i...