ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,755, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MRIGLOBAL (Kansas City, Mo.).
"Chemical agent detector with 30 second cycle" was invented by Eric Peters (Prairie Village, Kan.), Louis Anderson (Bel Air, Md.), Charmel Grisham (Grain Valley, Mo.), Sara Paalhar (Liberty, Mo.) and Sylvanna Couch (Lenexa, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas chromatography instrument is provided that is capable of analyzing samples both quickly and accurately. The detector includes a first unit and a second unit that alternate between collection mode and desorption mode. This allows one unit to collect the sample, while the other unit desorbs another sample ...