ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,246, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Vacuum degassing using electroactive material" was invented by Clemens Plachetka (Malsch, Germany), Tony Ziegler (Steinfeld, Germany) and Joachim-Richard Wagner (Ettlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A degasser for at least partially degassing a gas-containing liquid, in particular for a sample separation device, includes a liquid accommodation volume for accommodating the gas-containing liquid during degassing, a negative pressure chamber in which a negative pressure, compared to the liquid accommodation volume, is to be generated, ...