ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,865, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Mettler-Toledo GmbH (Greifensee, Switzerland).
"Gas cell" was invented by Par Wilhelm Bergstroem (Meilen, Switzerland), Martin Tazreiter (Winterthur, Switzerland), Ralph Kondziella (Straubenhardt, Germany), Francesca Venturini (Dubendorf, Switzerland) and Martin Hertel (Steinen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas cell (1) for the spectroscopic, in particular absorption spectroscopic, analysis of a gas, in which the gas is exposed to an incident beam of rays (S) of electromagnetic radiation and a beam of rays (SA) of electromagnetic radiation exiting the gas is detected to form a measu...