US Patent Issued to OmniCal on June 23 for "Heating adiabatic calorimeter and methods of use" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,322, issued on June 23, was assigned to OmniCal Inc. (Stafford, Texas).

"Heating adiabatic calorimeter and methods of use" was invented by Frank L. Wu (Stafford, Texas) and Jeff H. Wu (Stafford, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for initiating thermochemical events in an adiabatic reaction calorimeter are provided. The apparatus and method may be used in safety research of lithium battery and reactive chemical thermal runaways. The apparatus comprises a motor-driven conductive heating element in thermal contact with the outer surface of the reaction in the sample container for heat transfer during heating r...