US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on June 2 for "Molten salt impurity sensor" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,829, issued on June 2, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Molten salt impurity sensor" was invented by Jojo Jacob (Madison, Wis.), Mark Anderson (Oregon, Wis.) and Scott Sanders (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molten salt impurities sensor makes use of absorption spectrometry through a specially constructed and hardened probe inserted in the molten salt. The probe provides an opposed window and mirror, both adapted to resist the influence of molten salt, to allow the passage of light from the absorption spectrometer through the window to reflect off of the mirror and to be returned t...