ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,852, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to EMD Millipore Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Secondary statistical cutoff methodology for gas-liquid diffusion integrity testing" was invented by Rebecca Rodenhiser (Jaffrey, N.H.), Salvatore Giglia (Bedford, Mass.) and Christopher Johnson (Bedford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein relates to a method of reducing background noise during integrity testing of membrane filter to increase sensitivity and more effectively disposition failing membrane filters."

The patent was filed on Dec. 16, 2021, under Application No. 18/254,970.

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