ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,302, issued on March 17, was assigned to ECI TECHNOLOGY INC. (Totowa, N.J.).
"Electrochemical analysis of metallic depolarizers in gold electrodeposition" was invented by Patrick Saitta (New York), Jingjing Wang (Livingston, N.J.) and Eugene Shalyt (Washington Township, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for determining concentration of various trace metal ions in aqueous solutions, such as gold plating solutions. At a particular fixed reduction potential, the cathodic current can suddenly increase in magnitude after a certain period of time (e.g., an incubation time) passes in the presence o...