ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,973, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GLASS EXPANSION Pty Ltd. (Port Melbourne, Australia).
"Flow control device" was invented by David Sultana (Port Melbourne, Australia), Danny Brezni (Port Melbourne, Australia), Terrance Hettipathirana (Port Melbourne, Australia), Bill Farrell (Port Melbourne, Australia) and Anthony Le Breton (Port Melbourne, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow control device for aerosolised sample delivery in an inductively coupled plasma (ICP) analytical system is provided. The device includes a body that at least in part defines a sample flow separating region, the sample flow separating region havi...