ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,113, issued on April 7, was assigned to FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITAET JENA (Jena, Germany).
"Method and device for chemical-free determination of the chemical oxygen demand (CSB) in aqueous samples" was invented by Patrick Brautigam (Jena, Germany), Sascha Raufeisen (Berlin), Michael Stelter (Chemnitz, Germany) and Samira Lambertz (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and a device for the chemical-free determination of the chemical oxygen demand (CODs) in aqueous samples. The object of the invention, to develop a method that compensates for the disadvantages of the standard method a...