US Patent Issued to Micromeritics Instruments on Aug. 19 for "Hinged closure for gas pycnometer" (Georgia, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,644, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Micromeritics Instruments Corp. (Norcross, Ga.).

"Hinged closure for gas pycnometer" was invented by John McCaffrey (Duluth, Ga.), Jeff Kenvin (Roswell, Ga.), Kyle Mascaritolo (Peachtree Corners, Ga.), Brian Arnhart (Acworth, Ga.), Jordan Hinson (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Philip Remedios (Palm Harbor, Fla.), Jesse Knight (Clearwater, Fla.) and Bartosz Korec (Palm Harbor, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a housing having an access opening, a swing arm mounted to the housing and configured to be selectively pivoted toward and away from the access opening, and a closure captured b...