US Patent Issued to INFICON on Nov. 3 for "Vacuum leak detection using multiple vacuum connections and a common pump volume" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,225, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INFICON GmbH (Cologne, Germany).

"Vacuum leak detection using multiple vacuum connections and a common pump volume" was invented by Daniel Wetzig (Cologne, Germany), Yessica Brachthauser (Cologne, Germany) and Sebastian Weiss (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for vacuum leak detection, comprising a vacuum pump (18), a test chamber (12) which is designed to accommodate the test specimen and can be evacuated by means of the vacuum pump (18), and a gas detector (16) which detects the gas evacuated from the test chamber (12) by means of the vacuum pump...