ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,035, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to FOSS Analytical A/S (Hilleroed, Denmark).

"Method of preparing an organic material sample for LIBS analysis and a searing device for use in the same" was invented by Ahmed Fadil (Hilleroed, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organic material sample is prepared for LIBS analysis based on searing a sample of granular organic material having an organic matrix. The searing includes supplying heat to the sample for one or more known exposure times to produce a same number of searing instances, measuring reflectance values of the sample before and after one or more of the searing instances, dete...