ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,638, issued on May 26, was assigned to Spritius Technologies, PBC (White Rock, N.M.).

"Desorption apparatus" was invented by Jose Manuel Tafoya (Santa Fe, N.M.), Jon Rao (Santa Fe, N.M.), Matthew Nicholson Lee (Los Alamos, N.M.), Charles Frederick Cadieu (Burlingame, Calif.) and Daniel Francis Opila (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas desorption apparatus includes a central desorption chamber defining an interior portion adapted for heating, an inlet airlock coupled to chamber, a pump system coupled to each interior portion of the chamber and the inlet airlock and operable to create a pressure equivalency between the i...