ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,987, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Genesee Valley Innovations LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Modeling of liquid-gas meniscus dynamics for arbitrary nozzle geometries" was invented by Soren Taverniers (Palo Alto, Calif.), Adrian Lew (Stanford, Calif.), Svyatoslav Korneev (San Jose, Calif.), Christoforos Somarakis (Gilroy, Calif.) and Morad Behandish (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a damping rate of unforced oscillations of a meniscus are disclosed. An example method includes receiving input describing a shape of a container, physical parameters of a liquid inside the container, and an equ...