ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,047, issued on May 12, was assigned to CANDU ENERGY INC. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Portable polymer tester and testing method" was invented by Narendra Singh Sachdev (Oakville, Canada), Jason Deadman (Georgetown, Canada), Robert Jamieson (Toronto), Panayotis Dritsas (Brampton, Canada), Mark Adam Chudak (Oakville, Canada), Cesar Antonio Bravo (Guelph, Canada), Kevin Di Carlo (Cambridge, Canada), Daniel Dat Ho (Kleinburg, Canada) and Susan Creber (Gravenhurst, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable testing device and method for measuring physical characteristics of a polymeric or elastomeric material is provided. The testing dev...