US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates on April 15 for "Methods for evaluating vapor pump performance" (Pennsylvania, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,973, issued on April 15, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Methods for evaluating vapor pump performance" was invented by John P. Colarusso (Lincoln University, Pa.) and Kyle Doce (Elkton, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method that includes disposing a vapor pump partially within an enclosure, such that the vapor pump is in fluid communication with the enclosure and an external environment, and where the enclosure comprises at least one vapor. In some embodiments, a portion of the at least one vapor is transferred with the vapor pump from the enclos...