US Patent Issued to Edwards on Jan. 13 for "Thermal conductivity vacuum gauge and thermal compensation assembly" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,561, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Edwards Ltd. (Burgess Hill, Great Britain).

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