US Patent Issued to Elemental Scientific on Dec. 23 for "Atmospheric purge system and method for laser ablation sample processing" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,997, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Elemental Scientific Inc. (Omaha, Neb.).

"Atmospheric purge system and method for laser ablation sample processing" was invented by Mark Casper (Blair, Neb.), Ross Coenen (Omaha, Neb.), Michael P. Field (Papillion, Neb.) and Daniel R. Wiederin (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for controlling flow of a purge gas introduced to an ablation cell between samples to remove atmospheric gas. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a spray chamber including a spray chamber body, a transfer gas inlet configured to receive gas from a laser ablation...