ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,354, issued on June 23, was assigned to HORIBA LTD. (Kyoto, Japan) and HORIBA ADVANCED TECHNO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Dilution mechanism, particle size distribution measurement system, particle size distribution measurement method, and program for particle size distribution measurement" was invented by Keijiro Sakuramoto (Kyoto, Japan), Tetsuya Mori (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazunori Habu (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dilution mechanism includes: a sample line that guides the sample containing the particles to the particle size distribution measurement device; a dilution line that merges with the sample line and through w...