ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,478, issued on July 21, was assigned to FUDAN UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"System and method for analyzing size distribution and chemical composition of neutral clusters below 3 nm" was invented by Lin Wang (Shanghai), Runlong Cai (Shanghai), Yueyang Li (Shanghai), Yiliang Liu (Shanghai) and Jun Zheng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for analyzing the size distribution and chemical composition of neutral clusters below 3 nm, which achieves efficient sampling based on a core sampling method. The system utilizes the high charging efficiency of the unipolar charging device to charge the nanoparticles and efficient...