ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,960, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to INFICON GmbH (Cologne, Germany).

"Vacuum leak detection system, gas control unit and method for gas leak detection" was invented by Daniel Wetzig (Cologne, Germany), Maximilian Reismann (Cologne, Germany), Josef Grenz (Cologne, Germany) and Hendrik Van Triest (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum leak detection system may comprise a test chamber unit having a test chamber gas inlet and a test chamber gas outlet, a gas detection unit having a gas detection gas inlet and a gas detection gas outlet, and a gas control unit connecting the test chamber gas inlet and the test chamber...