ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,654, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Elemental Scientific Inc. (Omaha, Neb.).

"Systems and methods for determining flow characteristics of a fluid segment for analytic determinations" was invented by Beau A. Marth (La Vista, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for determining whether liquid remains on a wafer surface following a scanning operation. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a first system configured for positioning adjacent a transfer line coupled with a scanning nozzle to dispense fluid onto a wafer surface and to recover the fluid from the wafer surface, the first syst...