ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,937, issued on July 14.

"Capture vessel cartridge for permeation testing of prefilled packages and containers" was invented by Jeffrey L. Jackson (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Slava A. Berezovskiy (Apple Valley, Minn.) and Timothy A. Ascheman (Elk River, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge for use in conjunction with a target analyte permeation testing instrument and method for measuring transmission rate of a target analyte through a prefilled package or container using the cartridge. The cartridge includes an open ended vessel, a first end cap capable of repeated sealed engagement over one of the open axial ends of the vessel, ...