US Patent Issued to AROBOTICSCOMPANY on Sept. 1 for "Automated thermal conductivity tester" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,996, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AROBOTICSCOMPANY INC (Ossining, N.Y.).

"Automated thermal conductivity tester" was invented by Akaash Reddy Kancharla (Ossining, N.Y.), Jack Norleans (Ossining, N.Y.) and John Gray Levitsky (Ossining, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a test chamber with an area to hold a sample of material (e.g., concrete, thermal backfill, or sand). The area may be subject to a variable desaturation vacuum to dry the sample. The test chamber may also have a precision scale to weigh the sample and a probe inside the sample to provide heat and measure temperature. A controller may automat...