US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on April 15 for "Surface area determination for porous and particulate materials" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,590, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Surface area determination for porous and particulate materials" was invented by Marc Donohue (Baltimore) and Gregory Aranovich (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a device may receive measurement data associated with a measurement subject. The device may determine an adsorption isotherm for the measurement subject based on the measurement data. The device may determine a thermodynamic adsorption capacity of the measurement subject based on the adsorption isotherm. The device may determine a surface area value associated with the...