US Patent Issued to Beckman Coulter on Feb. 25 for "Pneumatics system with advanced system diagnostics capabilities" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,844, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Beckman Coulter Inc. (Brea, Calif.).

"Pneumatics system with advanced system diagnostics capabilities" was invented by Christopher Mandy (Orono, Minn.), Robert Torney (Chanhassen, Minn.), Dana Noll (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Nicholas Schrag (Chaska, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to diagnosing and locating fluid leakage within a pneumatic system (5) using a minimal amount of pressure sensors (55, 75, 89). In general, each branch (51, 71, 85) of a pneumatic system (5) includes an associated pressure sensor (55, 75, 89) and in accordance with how the pneumatic co...