US Patent Issued to INFICON on Feb. 3 for "Sniffer probe having a bypass opening, for a gas leak detector" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,874, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to INFICON GmbH (Cologne, Germany).

"Sniffer probe having a bypass opening, for a gas leak detector" was invented by Silvio Decker (Cologne, Germany) and Sebastian Weiss (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sniffer probe for a gas leak detector, which gas leak detector has a vacuum pump for drawing in gas through the sniffer probe in accordance with the sniffing principle and a gas detector for analyzing the gas flow drawn in, the sniffer probe comprising: a gas inlet for the gas flow drawn in, a gas outlet, which can be connected to the gas leak detector, and a channel, which gas-cond...