ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,015, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center (Hampton, Va.).

"Transducer geometry for amplification of axial load response and suppression of non-axial response" was invented by Myung K. Sung (Baltimore), Soobum Lee (Baltimore), Jude Persia (Baltimore) and Devin E. Burns (Hampton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This present disclosure is about a wind tunnel balance axial section. A wind tunnel balance is a sensor that measures six force/moment components from a test model in a wind tunnel. An axial section, ...