ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,976, issued on July 14, was assigned to CEBI ELECTROMECHANICAL COMPONENTS SPAIN S.A. (Villatuerta, Spain).

"Device for measuring electrical conductivity in liquid media" was invented by Sergio Diez Garcia (Villatuerta, Spain), Jose Luis Landatxe Zugarramurdi (Villatuerta, Spain), Enrique Breton Cristobal (Villatuerta, Spain), Jorge Machin Mindan (Villatuerta, Spain) and Javier Garcia Izaguirre (Villatuerta, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for measuring electrical conductivity comprising: electrodes (700a, 700b); a current source (100) configured to inject an electrical current into a medium (600); a switching block (200...