US Patent Issued to VUV Analytics on Sept. 1 for "Flow cells and methods for analyzing liquids at vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) wavelengths" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,972, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to VUV Analytics Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas).

"Flow cells and methods for analyzing liquids at vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) wavelengths" was invented by Dale A. Harrison (Austin, Texas) and Anthony T. Hayes (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) detector for use with a liquid chromatography (LC) system (otherwise referred to herein as an LC-VUV detector) for the study of liquids. The LC-VUV detector incorporates an ultra-short pathlength flow cell into the LC-VUV detector to render liquid samples at least semi-transparent to VUV light. Th...