US Patent Issued to Georgetown University on June 3 for "Apparatus and methods for detection and quantification of elements in molecules" (Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,584, issued on June 3, was assigned to Georgetown University (Washington).

"Apparatus and methods for detection and quantification of elements in molecules" was invented by Kaveh Jorabchi (Arlington, Va.), Joseph Lesniewski (Washington), Kunyu Zheng (Washington) and Samuel White (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes introducing at least one analyte into a gas plasma; generating neutral species from atoms of the analyte in the gas plasma; preferentially transporting the neutral species downstream of the gas plasma relative to any ions produced in the gas plasma; and reacting the neutral species of the analyt...