ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,304, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Palintest Ltd. (Gateshead, Great Britain).
"Spectrophotometric instrument" was invented by Simon Richard Johnston (Chollerton, Great Britain), Kevin McDermott (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Great Britain), Michal Lukasz Jankowski (Durham, Great Britain) and Matthew David Stebbings (Gateshead, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectrophotometric instrument (1) for the quantitative measurement of an optical property of an analyte in a sample cell (4). The spectrophotometric instrument (1) comprises an instrument housing (2a, 2b) for a source of electromagnetic radiation and a detector; an opt...