ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,715, issued on April 29, was assigned to Edwards Ltd. (Burgess Hill, Great Britain).
"Noble gas recovery system" was invented by Andrew James Seeley (Burgess Hill, Great Britain), Stephen Bruce Cottle (Burgess Hill, Great Britain), Neil Condon (Burgess Hill, Great Britain), Christopher Mark Bailey (Burgess Hill, Great Britain), Julian Richard Dean (Burgess Hill, Great Britain), Joanne Rachel Greenwood (Burgess Hill, Great Britain) and Zachary William Dunbar (Sanborn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a pumping system configured to pump respective exhaust gases from each of a plurality of chemical etching process ...