ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,503, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to INFICON INC. (East Syracuse, N.Y.).

"System and method for deconvolution of real-time mass from the influence of temperature and pressure on crystal microbalance" was invented by Chunhua Song (Jamesville, N.Y.), Mohamed B. Rinzan (Manlius, N.Y.), Steve James Lakeman (Newbury Park, Calif.), Lukas Baumgartel (Portland, Ore.), Matan Lapidot (Kibbutz Kfar, Israel) and Brian O'Neill (Lewis Center, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining the changes in resonance frequency in crystal microbalance (CM) sensors and the resulting changes in the determination of increment...