ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,957, issued on June 10, was assigned to VALMET AUTOMATION OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus for and method of measuring suspension flowing in tube fractionator" was invented by Matti Tormanen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for measuring flowing suspension includes a radiation source that directs wave motion to the suspension, a flow causing particles of the suspension to be sorted by size. A measuring arrangement measures first values of a first parameter of the wave motion interacted with the suspension at a first wavelength band of the wave motion, and measures second values of at least one of the followi...