ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,032, issued on July 15, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Permeation estimation apparatus and permeation estimation method" was invented by Risa Hara (Musashino, Japan) and Kodai Murayama (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A permeation estimation apparatus includes an interface configured to connect to a sensor that measures a concentration of a component, of a soaked material, that is eluted in a soaking solution in which the soaked material is soaking, and a controller configured to acquire the concentration of the component from the interface and estimate the degree of permeation of the soaking soluti...