ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,374, issued on May 26, was assigned to Stora Enso OYJ (Helsinki).

"Method and device for evaluating the permeability of a sample" was invented by Robertas Maldzius (Vilnius, Lithuania), Jonas Sidaravicius (Vilnius, Lithuania), Tadeus Lozovski (Vilnius, Lithuania), Kaj Backfolk (Villmanstrand, Finland) and Isto Heiskanen (Imatra, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an arrangement for determining the permeability of a sample, said arrangement comprising a source of fluid medium arranged such that at least a fraction of said medium can be brought into contact with a first surface of said sample to be t...