US Patent Issued to Picarro on Sept. 16 for "Thermal desorption preconcentrator adapted for spectroscopic gas analysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,553, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Picarro Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Thermal desorption preconcentrator adapted for spectroscopic gas analysis" was invented by Kai M. Skog (San Jose, Calif.), James M. Hamilton (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chris W. Rella (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bruce A. Richman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Elizabeth R. Schemm (Woodside, Calif.) and Rebecca Wernis (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved gas sample preprocessing is provided for scanning optical spectroscopic analysis instruments by tailoring characteristic gas handling times to the scan time Ts of the analysis instrument. In particular, for samp...