US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Feb. 10 for "Collection, release, and detection of analytes with polymer composite sampling materials" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,748, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Collection, release, and detection of analytes with polymer composite sampling materials" was invented by Raymond S. Addleman (Benton City, Wash.), Xiaohong Shari Li (Richland, Wash.), Wilaiwan Chouyyok (Richland, Wash.) and David A. Atkinson (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unique fiber core sampler composition, related systems, and techniques for designing, making, and using the same are described. The sampler is used to interface with existing field instrumentation, such as Ion Mobility Spectrometer (IMS) equipment. Desired sam...