ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,659, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HORIBA INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Enclosed battery emissions dilution and sampling" was invented by Montajir Rahman (Irvine, Calif.), Richard Stocker (Irvine, Calif.) and Terry Sobczak (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enclosed battery emissions dilution and sampling system includes a heated exhaust tube, an enclosure defining at least one inlet port on one end of the enclosure and an outlet port on another end of the enclosure fed into the heated exhaust tube, a dilution air line, at least one heated inlet line arranged with an end of the dilution air line and fed into...