US Patent Issued to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ESPIRITO SANTO-UFES on June 23 for "Device for measuring thermal conductivity" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,392, issued on June 23, was assigned to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ESPIRITO SANTO-UFES (Vitoria, Brazil).

"Device for measuring thermal conductivity" was invented by Luiz Octavio Meira Pereira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Anselmo Frizera Neto (Vitoria, Brazil), Arnaldo Gomes Leal Jr. (Vitoria, Brazil) and Renan Costa Lazaro (Vitoria, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device for measuring thermal conductivity comprising at least two fiber optics, at least one encapsulation, in which the first fiber optic comprises at least one section with...