ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,066, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SOUTHWEST TECHNICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA SOUTH INDUSTRIES GROUP (Chongqing, China).

"Adjoint automatic monitoring device and method for deposition rate of salt mist" was invented by Hulin Wu (Chongqing, China), Qiongyao He (Chongqing, China), Yuanyao Cen (Chongqing, China), Yao Wu (Chongqing, China), Fangchao Zhao (Chongqing, China) and Kun Zhou (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an adjoint automatic monitoring device and method for a deposition rate of salt mist. The adjoint automatic monitoring device includes: a wet candle method...