US Patent Issued to INFICON on July 21 for "Functionally testing a leak detection device for checking the sealing tightness of an inspection object filled with a liquid" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,450, issued on July 21, was assigned to INFICON GMBH (Cologne, Germany).

"Functionally testing a leak detection device for checking the sealing tightness of an inspection object filled with a liquid" was invented by Heike Hilgers (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test leak device for functional testing of a leak detection device for the leak test of a test specimen (14) filled with a liquid (12) having an internal pressure that is lower than atmospheric pressure, comprising a reservoir (102) filled with a test liquid (104), wherein the test liquid (104) has a vapor pressure of less than 500 mbar at room temperature, ...