ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,414, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Conditioning chamber for dual-interface fluidic system" was invented by Joanne Mariska Donkers (Haarlem, Netherlands), Hossein Eslami Amirabadi (Utrecht, Netherlands), Eveline Julia Streekstra (Utrecht, Netherlands), Josse Johan Bernhard Bouwhuis (Utrecht, Netherlands), Frank Henri Johan Schuren (Veenendaal, Netherlands), Michel Ossendrijver (Putten, Netherlands) and Evita Van De Steeg (Elspeet, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for investigating a membrane including a se...