ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,627, issued on April 15, was assigned to INNOVATEC GERATETECHNIK GMBH (Rheinbach, Germany), HOCHSCHULE BONN-RHEIN-SIEG (Sankt Augustin, Germany) and EXPLOTECH GMBH (Siegburg, Germany).

"Sample holder, system, and method for analyzing energetic materials" was invented by Florian Grunberg (Bonn, Germany), Dirk Schulze (Bonn, Germany), Gerhard Holl (Cologne, Germany) and Alfred Holl (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample holder for a system for analyzing energetic materials, including a first holder element having a first heating element, the heating element embodied as a resistance heater and having at least one first...