ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,467, issued on June 24.

"Temperature control system of a rice paddy methane flux collecting device" was invented by Namgoo Kang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a temperature control system of a rice paddy methane flux collecting device, which comprises: a chamber body having a collecting space in which a certain number of rice grains are located; a chamber door configured to open and close an upper side of the collecting space; a collecting unit configured to collect a sample gas in the collecting space; a heating unit and a cooling unit configured to increase or decrease the tempe...