ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,751, issued on July 14, was assigned to AFFIVAL SAS (Solesmes, France).

"Static mixer resistant to heat, corrosion and dissolution" was invented by Matthias Darrington (Vienne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a mixer device having a housing including at least first and second adjacent mixing cells (2, 3), each cell (2, 3) including a fluid inlet opening (21, 31) and a fluid outlet opening (22, 32), the inlet opening being offset from the outlet opening so that the axis of the inlet opening is parallel to the axis of the outlet opening, the outlet opening of the first cell being connected to the...