ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,297, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan) and National University Corporation TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Toyohashi, Japan).

"Gas measurement device and gas measurement method" was invented by Yoshihisa Suzuki (Toyokawa, Japan), Toshihiko Noda (Toyohashi, Japan) and Kazuaki Sawada (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The gas measurement device includes a filter having a plurality of openings, each opening being variable in size, an adjustment mechanism configured to vary size of the plurality of openings, a first gas sensor configured to detect gas molecules passing through an opening o...