ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,505, issued on July 29, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for sensing headspace vial presence" was invented by Jonathan Michael Frentzel (Santa Clara, Calif.), Thomas E. Price (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jared M. Bushey (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Paul C. Dryden (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for sensing headspace vial presence are described herein. In one embodiment, a system can include a sample probe, a fluid source in fluid communication with the sample probe, one or more of a pressure sensor and a flow sensor in fluid communication with the sam...