US Patent Issued to DTE EHF. on Oct. 28 for "Method and apparatus for quantitative chemical analysis of liquid metals and alloys" (Icelander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,246, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to DTE EHF. (Reykjavik, Iceland).

"Method and apparatus for quantitative chemical analysis of liquid metals and alloys" was invented by Sveinn Hinrik Gudmundsson (Mosfellsbaer, Iceland) and Kristjan Leosson (Reykjavik, Iceland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modified method and apparatus for measuring elements in a liquid metal or alloy sample (23) with Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS). The apparatus comprises a pulsed excitation laser (1) and an instrument head (6) comprising a laser path channel (10), laser excitation optics (2), receiving optics for receiving emission from a plasma ...