US Patent Issued to AMETEK on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus for high speed image capture during measurement of capillary pressure in a porous sample" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,882, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AMETEK INC. (Berwyn, Pa.).

"Apparatus for high speed image capture during measurement of capillary pressure in a porous sample" was invented by Phillip Naegele (Claremore, Okla.), William J. Willems (Broken Arrow, Okla.) and Tom Hicks (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement device including a centrifuge for holding porous media samples configured to test samples under centrifugal motion during rotation. A fluid capture device adjacent each media sample receives fluid from the sample due to centrifugal motion. A measurement system measures an amount of fluid from the media s...