ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,260, issued on April 29, was assigned to HACH LANGE GMBH (Berlin).

"Process water analysis sampling arrangement" was invented by Daniel Hofsommer (Teltow, Germany), Manfred Battefeld (Duesseldorf, Germany), Axel Leyer (Moenchengladbach, Germany), Sebastian Goertz (Nettetal, Germany), Kathrin Otte (Berlin), Frank Steinhauer (Berlin), Hartmut Draeger (Berlin), Aurelia Stellmach-Hanulok (Wuelfrath, Germany) and Michael Kussmann (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process water analysis sampling assembly includes an immersion probe having a first filter unit and a second filter unit which are fluidically separated from e...