US Patent Issued to Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences on Jan. 28 for "Test device and test method for isotope measurement of noble gases in lunar soil" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,966, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

"Test device and test method for isotope measurement of noble gases in lunar soil" was invented by Xuhang Zhang (Beijing), Fei Su (Beijing) and Huaiyu He (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a test device and a test method for isotope measurement of noble gases in lunar soil. The testing device includes a carbon dioxide laser ultra-high vacuum sample melting system, zirconium-aluminum getters, a vacuum dry pump, a first molecular pump, a second molecular pump, a neon gas capture unit, an argon...