ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,918, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dionex Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Disposable thin-film platinum hydrogen reference electrode" was invented by Jun Cheng (San Jose, Calif.), Yan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Gary L. Gleave (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to, in general, a disposable electrically insulating substrate surface comprising a platinum hydrogen reference electrode system structure, the use of such a substrate in a flow-through electrochemical cell assembly and methods of manufacturing said substrate. For example, in some embodiments, a disposable electrically insulating ...