US Patent Issued to THERMO FINNIGAN on Oct. 27 for "Method of utilizing deuterium gas for chromatography applications, deuterium gas generator and devices for conservation thereof" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,993, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to THERMO FINNIGAN LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method of utilizing deuterium gas for chromatography applications, deuterium gas generator and devices for conservation thereof" was invented by Edward McCauley (Cedar Park, Texas), Brody Guckenberger (Austin, Texas) and Scott Quarmby (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deuterium gas generator system. The deuterium gas generator system comprises an electrolysis cell and a palladium alloy purifier membrane having a surface area of not more than 10 square centimeters."

The patent was filed on Sept. 22, 2023, under Application No. 18/473,05...