US Patent Issued to Instrumentation Scientifique de Laboratoire I.S.L. on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for determining the distillation characteristics of petroleum samples by partial distillation" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,308, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Instrumentation Scientifique de Laboratoire I.S.L. (Verson, France).

"Systems and methods for determining the distillation characteristics of petroleum samples by partial distillation" was invented by Viachaslau Urvantsau (Fontenay-le-Marmion, France) and Stephan Henri Leon Pignol (Clinchamps-sur-Orne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to determine an initial mass of a sample; distill the sample up to at least a thermal destruction temperature; record, at a set of time points during the...