ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,669, issued on April 14, was assigned to CCTEG Coal Mining Research Institute (Beijing).

"Method for measuring liquid flow property and apparatus for observing droplet" was invented by Fuqiang Gao (Beijing), Jinhong Yang (Beijing), Shuwen Cao (Beijing), Jinfu Lou (Beijing), Rui Wu (Beijing), Lei Yang (Beijing), Xiaoqing Wang (Beijing), Jianzhong Li (Beijing), Shuangyong Dong (Beijing), Wenju Liu (Beijing) and Guiyang Yuan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring a liquid flow property is provided. The method includes controlling a droplet to drop from a preset height to a substrate, acquiring a droplet density ...