US Patent Issued to Lafayette College on June 2 for "French press permeameter" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,816, issued on June 2, was assigned to Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.).

"French press permeameter" was invented by Michael P. McGuire (Easton, Pa.) and Mary J. S. Roth (Easton, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A permeameter device comprising a pedestal base, wherein said pedestal base comprises an inner raised wall and an outer raised wall, wherein the inner raised wall is lower in height than the outer raised wall, a trough defined between the outer and inner walls of dimensions to accept therein a cylindrical tube, and at least one passage, having an inner port on said inner wall and extending through the outer wall through an out...