ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,857, issued on June 30, was assigned to Abilene Christian University (Abilene, Texas).

"Identifying and quantifying components in a high-melting-point liquid" was invented by Kim Pamplin (Abilene, Texas) and Tyler Cepica (Abilene, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, and methods for identifying and quantifying chemical components in a high-melting-point liquid. One such method includes: receiving, into a nebulizer assembly, a high-melting-point liquid from a molten liquid conduit; aerosolizing, using the nebulizer assembly, at least a portion of the received high-melting-point liquid; delivering, into one or more ...