ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,514, issued on July 22, was assigned to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Method of evaluating aerosol removal rate by steam condensation in steel containment" was invented by Lili Tong (Shanghai), Peizheng Hu (Shanghai) and Xuewu Cao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of evaluating the aerosol removal rate by steam condensation, comprising: establishing the aerosol removal rate evaluation facility to perform the aerosol gravity settling experiment without steam and the comprehensive aerosol removal experiment with steam, so as to obtain aerosol mass concentration and particle size distribution in the experime...