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Search Patents by Matthew Hoehler

Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.

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Resistance Compensator to Reduce Uncertainty in Determination of Movement of a Structural Member

NIST Inventors

Matthew Hoehler and Christopher Smith

Patent Description The invention is a method of estimating thermal expansion in a "wire" (a long thin flexible element that may be metallic or nonmetallic) by measuring changes in its electrical resistance. In some materials, the electrical resistance and thermal expansion are both almost linearly

Differential compensator to reduce uncertainty in determination of movement of a structural member

NIST Inventors

Matthew Hoehler and Christopher Smith

Patent Description This invention is a method for estimating thermal expansion in a wire attached to a moving target. In typical tests it is important to measure the motion of a specimen (target) with respect to a fixed reference point, and this is often accomplished by attaching a wire or thread