ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,601, issued on April 15, was assigned to Cytiva Sweden AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Method for measuring the absorbance of a substance in a solution and a measuring device therefor" was invented by Mikael Anders Hornqvist (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for measuring the absorbance of light of a substance in a solution in a measuring cell, said method comprising the steps of: transmitting a first light beam from a light source towards a beam splitter; dividing the first light beam into a signal light ray and a reference light ray by the beam splitter; modulating the signal light ray; modulating the refe...