ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,972, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Thermtest Inc. (Hanwell, Canada).

"Systems and methods for measuring thermal properties of solid materials" was invented by David Landry (Cumberland Bay, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a thermal property of a small and/or conductive sample material. Measurement data of the sample material is obtained using a transient plane source sensor placed in contact with at least one solid cylinder slab of the sample material, wherein each of the at least one solid cylinder slab of the sample material has a slab radius that is larger than a radius o...