ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,127, issued on July 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Concentration monitoring system, concentration management system, and concentration monitoring method" was invented by Masaru Chiyomaru (Tokyo), Hiroaki Mikawa (Tokyo) and Yuichi Okuzaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a concentration monitoring system which allows continuous concentration monitoring of a processing tank. The concentration monitoring system is provided with a first cycle in which a sample of a processing liquid to which a chemical has been added is taken from a processing tank in which the processing liquid is stored ...