US Patent Issued to HACH LANGE on April 29 for "Water sampling immersion probe" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,316, issued on April 29, was assigned to HACH LANGE GMBH (Berlin).

"Water sampling immersion probe" was invented by Manfred Battefeld (Dusseldorf, Germany), Frank Steinhauer (Berlin), Aurelia Stellmach-Hanulok (Wulfrath, Germany), Nina Aleth (Krefeld, Germany), Silke Brubaker (Mettmann, Germany), Axel Leyer (Monchengladbach, Germany), Hartmut Drager (Berlin), Sebastian Goertz (Nettetal, Germany), Michael Kussmann (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Michael Kuppers (Kaarst, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a water sampling immersion probe (50) for continuously filtering a water sample from wastewater (14). ...