US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on June 30 for "Fixtures and methods for testing articles in tension when using compression loading" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,419, issued on June 30, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Fixtures and methods for testing articles in tension when using compression loading" was invented by James M. Greer Jr. (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fixtures and methods for testing articles in tension when using compression loading are disclosed. The fixture is formed by three plates that are arranged to simulate a clevis-lug joint. The outer plates form the clevis, and the inner plate forms the lug. The plates each have holes that are aligned to accept the lug pi...