ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,936, issued on July 14.

"Method of utilizing optical path difference in two-phase flow for analytical calculation of particle size gradation and solid content" was invented by Jilai Fan (Dandong, China), Chuang Li (Dandong, China), Xiaoxu Li (Dandong, China), Hao Chen (Dandong, China), Sen Hu (Dandong, China), Mingfeng Wu (Dandong, China) and Xiaodong Zhou (Dandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method utilizing optical path difference in two-phase flow for analytical calculation of particle size gradation and solid content comprises: changing a width of measurement area of a laser particle size analyzer, and collecting exti...