ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,224, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. (Singapore).
"High flowrate flushing for open port sampling probe" was invented by Thomas R. Covey (Concord, Canada) and Chang Liu (Concord, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a sampling system for mass spectrometry, a method and apparatus are set forth for high flow-rate flushing and sample delivery via a sampling probe (10). The sampling system includes a sampling probe (10) having a first fluid conduit (40) with an inlet, a second fluid conduit (42) with an outlet, and a sampling port fluidly connecting the first fluid conduit (40) and second fluid...