US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Sampling with fitting between needle and housing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,925, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sampling with fitting between needle and housing" was invented by Thomas Ortmann (Straubenhardt/Ottenhausen, Germany) and Michael Lang (Baden-Wuttemberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sampling unit includes a needle for aspirating a sample fluid, a housing, and a fitting. The needle includes a needle tip and a needle channel through the needle for guiding the aspirated sample fluid. The needle channel opens at the needle tip. The housing includes a housing cavity and a housing channel opening into the housing cavity. The fitting inclu...