US Patent Issued to Astrotech Technologies on June 16 for "Chemical distillation system with in situ analytics" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,113, issued on June 16, was assigned to Astrotech Technologies Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Chemical distillation system with in situ analytics" was invented by Thomas B. Pickens III (Austin, Texas), Eric Wallis (Leander, Texas), Christopher Saphos (Austin, Texas), David Allen (Leander, Texas), Zachary Winfield (Austin, Texas) and Kayla Sarantakos (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated distillation system includes a distillation process under vacuum, a sampling device for extracting a vapor sample of distillate, a gas analyzer for measuring a property of the vapor sample, and a controller for analyzing the property and ...