US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, TOHOKU STEEL on Feb. 17 for "Load sensor and load detector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,809, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan) and TOHOKU STEEL Co. LTD. (Shibata-Gun, Japan).

"Load sensor and load detector" was invented by Fumio Narita (Sendai, Japan), Kumi Inoue (Sendai, Japan), Hiroki Kurita (Sendai, Japan), Shion Osana (Sendai, Japan), Siti Masturah Binti Fakhruddin (Sendai, Japan), Naoto Miyamoto (Sendai, Japan), Masahito Watanabe (Shibata-gun, Japan), Daiki Chiba (Shibata-gun, Japan), Ryuichi Onodera (Shibata, Japan), Tsuyoki Tayama (Shibata-gun, Japan), Takenobu Sato (Shibata-gun, Japan) and Takashi Ebata (Shibata-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load sensor and load d...