ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,110, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to HACH COMPANY (Loveland, Colo.).
"Electrochemical digestion" was invented by Vishnu Vardhanan Rajasekharan (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Dan Jonathan Kroll (Fort Collins, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment provides a method for digesting at least one analyte of an aqueous sample, including: introducing an aqueous sample comprising at least one analyte into a digestion device comprising one or more carbon substituted material electrodes; digesting the at least one analyte by applying an electrical potential between an anode and a cathode of the digestion device, wherein the digesting ...