US Patent Issued to FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH on March 25 for "Device and method for determining the volume and porosity of objects and bulk materials" (German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,360, issued on March 25, was assigned to FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH (Juelich, Germany).

"Device and method for determining the volume and porosity of objects and bulk materials" was invented by Viktor Sydoruk (Juelich, Germany), Johannes Kochs (Aachen, Germany), Dagmar van Dusschoten (EP Munstergeleen, Netherlands) and Siegfried Jahnke (Velbert, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for determining the total volume and/or the true volume and the porosity of objects, wherein a gas chamber of a closed measurement chamber is compressed or expanded, this volume change triangleV in the measurement c...