ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,559, issued on May 19, was assigned to Artha AG (Schlieren, Switzerland).

"Device and method for spectroscopic monitoring of liquids" was invented by Felix Scholkmann (Zurich) and Peter Pfiffner (Herrliberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of spectroscopic monitoring of liquids. In particular, among other aspects, disclosed herein are novel Raman spectrometry (RS)- and laser-induced fluorescence (LIF)-enabled water quality monitoring devices, as well as methods, computer-implemented methods, or programmes for processing spectral data received therefrom. The principles underlying t...