US Patent Issued to Elemental Scientific on Aug. 25 for "Automatic sample and standard preparation based on recognition of sample identity and sample type" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,912, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Elemental Scientific Inc. (Omaha, Neb.).

"Automatic sample and standard preparation based on recognition of sample identity and sample type" was invented by Michael P. Field (Papillion, Neb.), Daniel R. Wiederin (Omaha, Neb.), Guosheng Zhang (Omaha, Neb.), Kevin Hahn (Urbandale, Iowa), Liang Zhang (Omaha, Neb.), Michael Le (Omaha, Neb.) and Karl Hauke (Warranwood, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing a sample preparation and analysis system based on detected unique sample identities and locations is described. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited...