ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,569, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vacuum tube support structure" was invented by Tomoya Taguchi (Musashino, Japan) and Kazuki Setsuda (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum tube support structure includes a vacuum tube, a cover configured to cover the vacuum tube, and a support member configured to support the vacuum tube and the cover. The cover includes a fluid introduction port configured to allow a fluid to pass through the cover to introduce the fluid inside the cover and a fluid discharge port configured to allow the fluid to pass through the cover to discharge the flui...