US Patent Issued to AMS Trace Metals on Sept. 30 for "Techniques for toxic metal detection and speciation in aqueous matrices" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,471, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AMS Trace Metals Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Techniques for toxic metal detection and speciation in aqueous matrices" was invented by Harmesh K. Saini (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vladimir Dozortsev (Ridgewood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-situ measurement apparatus automatically draws aqueous samples on an intermittent or ad-hoc basis and measures specific metal specie concentration. The apparatus can perform both raw measurement of specific metal specie, as well as processing to convert other species of the same metal to the specific metal specie or to destroy or remove unwanted mas...