ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,510, issued on July 29, was assigned to GLOBAL HEAT TRANSFER Ltd. (Staffordshire, Great Britain).

"Fluid condition monitoring system and apparatus" was invented by Timothy James Powell (Stafford, Great Britain), Daniel John Wynne Ellis (Merseyside, Great Britain) and Clive Jones (Brocton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved system and apparatus for testing thermal fluids in which the condition of a heat transfer fluid is measured. The system includes a sample vessel with a sample inlet for receiving a sample of heat transfer fluid from the heat transfer system and a sample outlet for returning the sample of heat ...