ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,931, issued on July 14, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
"Device to standardize laboratory air-particle abrasion testing" was invented by Reem Mohsen Almutairi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Sarah Mohammed Alnafaiy (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmad Maniallah Al-Thobity (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to standardize laboratory air-particle abrasion testing includes a specimen section and a handpiece section, each located on ends of a platform. The specimen section includes a specimen metal table, a specimen metal plate, a metal clamp, a clamp locknut, and a horizontal...