US Patent Issued to HACH on March 17 for "Electrochemical cell stirring" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,303, issued on March 17, was assigned to HACH COMPANY (Loveland, Colo.).

"Electrochemical cell stirring" was invented by Corey Alan Salzer (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Dan Jonathan Kroll (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment provides a method for stirring a sample in a cell, including: providing a cell comprising a sample chamber; placing an electrode on an inner surface of the sample chamber, placing a removable stir bar in the sample chamber, the removable stir bar directly contacting and touching the electrode; and wherein the stir bar can be operated to rotate within the sample chamber upon the electrode...