ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,440, issued on May 27, was assigned to Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

"High-precision automatic weighing device for powder samples" was invented by Dingshuai Xue (Beijing), Danping Zhang (Beijing), Yanhong Liu (Beijing), Shun Guo (Beijing), Xiangli Wang (Beijing) and Bo Wan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a high-precision automatic weighing device for powder samples, including a three-dimensional moving track and a working area, wherein the three-dimensional moving track includes a horizontal length track, a vertical track and a horizontal width tr...