ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,150, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Kinetics Technology Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Modular reflux sampler" was invented by Chung-Hsiang Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a modular reflux sampler, including a condenser container and a vortex tube. The condenser container is enclosed outside a gas pipeline to be cooled; the vortex tube has a cold air nozzle; the cold air nozzle extends into the condenser container to inject cold air in order to cool the gas pipeline; the vortex tube is connected with a compressed air duct to input compressed air as a cold air raw material; whe...