US Patent Issued to Omicron electronics on March 24 for "Apparatus and method for degassing a device, and corresponding test system for gas analysis" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,927, issued on March 24, was assigned to Omicron electronics GmbH (Klaus, Austria).

"Apparatus and method for degassing a device, and corresponding test system for gas analysis" was invented by Dietmar Giselbrecht (Bregenz, Austria) and Martin Anglhuber (Feldkirch, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to degas a device (7), an apparatus (10) is provided that comprises a control unit (19), a pump (3), a first volume (1,2), a second volume (6), valve means (12), a first valve (15) and a second valve (14). At the discharge end, the pump (3) is connected to an air outlet (21) via the valve means (12) and to the first volume (...