US Patent Issued to Aerodyne Research on June 24 for "Rapid, sensitive hydrogen detector with flow path difference compensation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,220, issued on June 24, was assigned to Aerodyne Research Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Rapid, sensitive hydrogen detector with flow path difference compensation" was invented by David D. Nelson Jr. (N. Chelmsford, Mass.), Scott C. Herndon (Littleton, Mass.), Joanne H. Shorter (Lexington, Mass.) and Joseph R. Roscioli (Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, rapid, sensitive detection of molecular hydrogen is achieved by in a detector that divides sample gas into two flows by dividing the sample gas before dampening variation and converting hydrogen to water vapor at two different points. For example, a d...