US Patent Issued to Edwards on Dec. 2 for "Thermal conductivity vacuum gauge assembly" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,141, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Edwards Ltd. (Burgess Hill, Great Britain).

"Thermal conductivity vacuum gauge assembly" was invented by Glen Croft (Burgess Hill, Great Britain), Nicholas Daniel Hutton (Burgess Hill, Great Britain), Gary Michael George Lord (Burgess Hill, Great Britain) and Matthew Gareth Key (Burgess Hill, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a thermal conductivity vacuum gauge assembly. The assembly comprises a body defining an internal chamber for receiving working gas and a heater element disposed within the chamber. The body is defined by a wall having an outer fac...