ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,832, issued on March 24, was assigned to Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute of Jiangsu Province (Nanjing, China).

"Low-energy consumption solvent dilution device for pre-treating sample" was invented by Yanshan Liu (Nanjing, China), Tongqing Zhang (Nanjing, China), Shengkai Tang (Nanjing, China), Daming Li (Nanjing, China), Xiaowei Liu (Nanjing, China), Xiankun Gu (Nanjing, China) and Dongdong Shen (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a low-energy consumption solvent dilution device for pre-treating samples comprising an accommodating unit, the accommodating unit including a case and an accommo...