ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,767, issued on June 3, was assigned to Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. (Perrysburg, Ohio).

"Gas volume fraction measurement and calibration" was invented by Lawrence Gochberg (Sylvania, Ohio), Todd Coleman (Wayne, Ohio), Walter Anderson (Maumee, Ohio) and Stephen Graff (Maumee, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of determining a gas volume fraction in a conductive liquid includes: immersing a first electrode in the conductive liquid, wherein the first electrode is electrically connected to a resistor and a voltage source; immersing a second electrode electrically connected to the voltage source in the conducti...