US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA on May 12 for "In-situ beta-particle detector for high resolution 234th export measurements" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,282, issued on May 12, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, S.C.).

"In-situ beta-particle detector for high resolution 234th export measurements" was invented by Timothy J. Shaw (Columbia, S.C.) and Michael L. Myrick (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sea going instrument is used to measure the 234Th activity on settling particles in the ocean as an indicator of carbon sequestration as export from the surface ocean. The instrumentation can be adapted to multiple sampling platforms with the goal of providing high temporal resolution 234Th flux measurements at multiple locations and depths in the ocean. ...