ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,941, issued on March 31, was assigned to Koloma Inc. (Denver).

"Systems and methods for enhanced detection and quantification of chemical species" was invented by Colin Whyte (Grove City, Ohio), Thomas Darrah (Westerville, Ohio), Brent Lary (Columbus, Ohio), Henry Wulsin (Columbus, Ohio), Christopher Gardner (Columbus, Ohio), William Eymold (Columbus, Ohio) and Jacob Harrington (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for enhanced mud gas logging includes receiving a gas stream; separating the gas stream into a first gas stream, a second gas stream, and a third gas stream; directing the first gas stream to a gas chrom...