ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,717, issued on July 8.
"System and method for mechanically cleaning a spectrometer probe" was invented by Henry Voigt (Vienna) and Christoph Wagner (Vienna).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning system can be used for cleaning the emitting and receiving units in a measurement section of a spectrometer probe. The cleaning system includes a cleaning instrument including a blade, cleaning lamellas extend outward from the blade, a cleaning instrument actuator including a piston imparting linear motion to the cleaning instrument during a cleaning operation and an attachment adapter configured to attach the cleaning instrument actuator t...