ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,278, issued on July 15, was assigned to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY (Changsha, China).

"Method and its application for regulating heat treatment derived from in-situ collection of information" was invented by Hongying Li (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and its application for regulating heat treatment derived from the in-situ collection of information. In-situ collecting information and/or data during heat treatment on a test piece, comparing the information or data with relevant information or data in a heat treatment information database, detecting or characterizing a heat treatment extent or state of the test...