US Patent Issued to ANALYTICAL DETECTION on July 14 for "Trace detection of low volatile substances using inductive heating of a sampling swab" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,918, issued on July 14, was assigned to ANALYTICAL DETECTION LLC (Lake Forest, Calif.).

"Trace detection of low volatile substances using inductive heating of a sampling swab" was invented by Andrey N. Vilkov (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Jack Albert Syage (Corona del Mar, Calif.) and Joseph Adam Widjaja (Laguna Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a conductive sampling swab and a thermal desorber comprising an induction coil. The thermal desorber defines an opening configured to receive at least a portion of the conductive sampling swab within an internal volume defined by the induction coil, and the ther...