US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on March 18 for "Unitary distribution plate and configurable diaphragm" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,497, issued on March 18, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Unitary distribution plate and configurable diaphragm" was invented by Michael J. May (Bartlesville, Okla.) and Jason Aaron Lawrence (Owasso, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unitary distribution plate of a Gas chromatograph (GC) module having a plurality of valve bores disposed on a bottom surface of the unitary distribution plate and a least one sensor cell and at least one column port machined into the top surface of the unitary distribution plate. The valve bores and sensor cells are connected by fluid pathways within a thickness of the distribu...