ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,245, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOTALENERGIES ONETECH (Courbevoie, France).

"System and method for subsampling a gaseous subsample from a monophasic fluid for noble gas analysis" was invented by Magali Pujol (Pau, France), James Alexander Scott (Pau, France) and Jerome Pauly (Pau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a subsampling system or method of a monophasic fluid (2) for the preparation of a gaseous subsample (2b), said subsampling system (1) comprising: a first inlet valve (11), an expandable cell (20), a second valve (41), and an expansion cell (40); said first inlet valve (11) being arranged s...