ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,828, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Elemental Scientific Inc. (Omaha, Neb.).

"System for prioritization of collecting and analyzing liquid samples" was invented by Daniel R. Wiederin (Omaha, Neb.), David Diaz (Bennington, Neb.) and Karl Hauke (Warranwood, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described to determine a prioritization schedule for samples handled by a system with multiple remote sampling systems. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, an analysis system at a first location; one or more remote sampling systems at remote from the first location, the one or more remote sampling ...