US Patent Issued to Inficon on Oct. 28 for "Method for detecting test gas exiting a test body using an optical sensor" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,207, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Inficon GMBH (Cologne, Germany).

"Method for detecting test gas exiting a test body using an optical sensor" was invented by Daniel Wetzig (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a test gas escaping from a leak in a test specimen that uses an optical sensor to measure optical radiation reflected or emitted from the test specimen or its background at different points in time and comparing the measured optical radiation at the different points in time to determine whether a leak exists."

The patent was filed on Dec. 29, 2021, under Application No. 18/270,109.

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