ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,162, issued on March 3, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Automated contaminant separation in gas chromatography" was invented by Matthias Francois (Clamart, France), Elena Borisova (Clamart, France), Jean-Pierre Bailly (Clamart, France) and Jerome Breviere (Clamart, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating an unknown gas sample includes acquiring a chromatogram of the unknown gas sample and processing the chromatogram to identify a peak. The peak is evaluated to determine if it is representative of a single gas species in the unknown gas sample. The peak is fit with at least fir...