ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,186, issued on April 8, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method and system for monitoring condition of a sample handling system of a gas analyser" was invented by Krishna Prashanth (Bengaluru, India), Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya (Pune, India) and Kalyan Kumar Mallick (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a method and a system for monitoring condition of a sample handling system connected to a gas analyzer. The sample handling system comprises a sample line for supplying a gas sample to the gas analyzer, and sample handling devices. The system for monitoring condition, recei...