ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,725, issued on April 14, was assigned to FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Long-term benthic incubation and measuring system and method" was invented by Jordon Beckler (Ft. Pierce, Fla.) and Csaba Vaczo (Ft. Pierce, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The exemplary system and method configured to perform benthic flux incubation and measurement in an on-going continuous manner via motorized or non-motorized actuators that moves one or more sampling chambers (i) between different sampling regions or (ii) maintains the sampling chamber over a single region, for long term repeated measurements. The exemp...