ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,649, issued on April 15, was assigned to Inficon Inc. (East Syracuse, N.Y.).

"Method for displaying concentration data of a substance and an associated apparatus" was invented by Elliot Gerard (Hialeah, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for displaying gas concentration values on a graphical display of a leak detector comprises detecting a presence of a gas using a gas sensor. A signal is generated by the gas sensor and transmitted from the gas sensor to a processor. The received signal is processed to determine a gas concentration value and a corresponding time stamp. The gas concentration values and corresponding time stam...