ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,973, issued on April 22, was assigned to ParticleTech ApS (Farum, Denmark).

"Method of determining at least one property associated to a dry particulate substance" was invented by Trine Aabo Andersen (Farum, Denmark), Tom Olesen (Farum, Denmark) and Rasmus Fjordbak Nielsen (Farum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining at least one property associated to a dry particulate substance is disclosed. The method includes providing a sample support capable of containing a liquid medium; providing a dispersed sample including a portion of the particulate substance dispersed in a portion of liquid dispersing medium in t...