ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,620, issued on May 27, was assigned to Blue Lab Solutions LLC (Scotia, N.Y.).

"Signal-based medium analysis" was invented by Sarah E. Pluta (Scotia, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solution for evaluating a medium using electrical signals is described. A plurality of electrical signals having different frequencies are transmitted through the medium and signal data corresponding to the electrical signals after having traveled through the medium is acquired. A complex impedance and a complex permittivity and/or complex conductivity can be calculated for the medium. A set of characteristics of the medium can be computed using mixi...