ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,604, issued on May 19, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).
"Light-guiding flow cell technologies" was invented by Michael O. Fogwill (Uxbridge, Mass.), Joseph D. Michienzi (Plainville, Mass.), Sebastien Besner (Bolton, Mass.), Brett G. Cook (Lakeville, Mass.) and Peter O'Brien (Belgooly, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow cell for a liquid chromatography detector comprises a substrate formed of a glass material; a fluidic channel extending through the substrate; and at least one gas filled region formed in the substrate along at least a portion of a length of the fluidic channel. A portion of the gla...