ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,087, issued on March 3, was assigned to Wipotec GmbH (Kaiserslautern, Germany).
"Scale with overload detection" was invented by Jan Gottfriedsen (Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Germany) and Frank Schmitt (Mittelbrunn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a scale operating according to the principle of electrodynamic force compensation and to a method for its operation. An automatic switchover from a measuring mode to an overload mode is provided for detecting overload forces. In this overload mode the load resistance formed by a coil and at least one measuring resistor is reduced in order to allow a higher coil ...