ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,656, issued on July 28, was assigned to BTG INSTRUMENTS AB (Saffle, Sweden).

"Determination of a property of a fiber suspension" was invented by Niclas Andersson (Karlstad, Sweden), Jonny Weng (Saffle, Sweden), Hans Pettersson (Grums, Sweden) and Karl Erik Rudander (Saffle, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a property of a fiber suspension comprises obtaining a sample and diluting the sample by a first dilution, thereby providing a diluted sample, while retaining essentially all of the sample, and mixing the diluted sample, thereby providing a mixed, diluted sample. By removing part of the mixed, diluted ...