US Patent Issued to TA Instruments-Waters on Aug. 11 for "Rheology and dielectric spectroscopy measurement systems" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,448, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TA Instruments-Waters LLC (New Castle, Del.).

"Rheology and dielectric spectroscopy measurement systems" was invented by Jun Kanai (Saitama, Japan), Scott Merrullo (South Hamilton, Mass.) and Yuki Kawata (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for performing electrical and rheology measurements of a material sample, comprises a first plate; a second plate; a rotatable drive shaft extending from a motor to rotate the first plate relative to the second plate; and a sample gap between the first plate and the second plate. The second plate includes first and second electrodes that...