US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on May 27 for "Evaluating the foamability of a solution using a vibrational viscometer" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,511, issued on May 27, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Evaluating the foamability of a solution using a vibrational viscometer" was invented by Wei Yu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Hau Yung Lo (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Zhengwei Pan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mazen Yousef Kanj (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating the foamability of a test solution. The method includes forming foam in a vertical measurement column including an open top end and a fritted plate proximal to a bottom end by passing a gas stream through the fitted plate and through the test solut...