ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,560, issued on March 25, was assigned to JGC Japan Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Fluid mixing unit with meandering flow through partitions of a porous body" was invented by Masahiro Kawano (Yokohama, Japan), Naoki Tahara (Yokohama, Japan), Kiminori Takahashi (Yokohama, Japan) and Shuichi Oguro (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid mixing unit includes a cylindrical porous body partitioning a container into a first flow space and a second flow space surrounding the first flow space. A first supply port supplies a first fluid to one of the first and second flow spaces. A second supply port provided on one end side of the...