ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,039, issued on Sept. 8.
"Portable compound trace detection device" was invented by Aditi Bhaskar (Wilsonville, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device has a collector having an inlet to allow collection of a sample, an electrolysis chamber having at least two electrodes, the electrolysis chamber connected to the inlet to receive the sample, a spectrometry chamber connected to the electrolysis chamber by one or more channels, one or more emitters in the spectrometry chamber, one or more receivers in the spectrometry chamber, each receiver corresponding to an emitter of the one or more emitters, a controller to receive a...