ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,929, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Mettler-Toledo GmbH (Greifensee, Switzerland).

"Calibration method for a differential scanning calorimeter" was invented by Thomas Meyer (Zurich, Switzerland) and Thomas Huetter (Niederrohrdorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential scanning calorimeter includes a temperature-controlled heat source and a sensor arrangement with sample- and reference-side pan support regions and measurement regions. Measurement region sensor(s) output a differential heat flow signal representative of a difference between heat flowing across the sample- and reference-side measurement regions a...