US Patent Issued to Elemental Scientific Lasers on Oct. 7 for "Laser ablation system with in-chamber fiber optic detection for laser induced breakdown spectroscopy" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,107, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Elemental Scientific Lasers LLC (Omaha, Neb.).

"Laser ablation system with in-chamber fiber optic detection for laser induced breakdown spectroscopy" was invented by Ciaran J. O'Connor (Bozeman, Mont.), Jay N. Wilkins (Belgrade, Mont.) and Shane Hilliard (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for laser induced breakdown spectroscopy using one or more fiber optics within a laser ablation chamber are described. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, an ablation chamber defining an interior region configured to hold a sample target for ablation by an ablatio...