US Patent Issued to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE on July 28 for "High-temperature and high-pressure speed of sound apparatus and measuring the speed of sound in a sample at high-temperature and high-pressure" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,266, issued on July 28, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"High-temperature and high-pressure speed of sound apparatus and measuring the speed of sound in a sample at high-temperature and high-pressure" was invented by Elizabeth Grace Rasmussen (Boulder, Colo.) and Mark Owen McLinden (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-temperature and high-pressure speed of sound apparatus measures the speed of sound in a sample at high-temperature and high-pressure, the apparatus includes: a defined-length spacer that has a fixed length space...