ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,356, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Repligen Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Variable path length absorption spectrometer having automated continuous slope measurement" was invented by Matthew Muller (Cranford, N.J.), Richard Hall III (Bernardsville, N.J.), Yusheng Zhang (Stewartsville, N.J.) and Peter Halatin (Howell, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a light source, to generate a probe signal, comprising incident radiation; an optical probe, to direct the incident radiation through a fluid sample; a motor, to move the optical probe along a probe axis, to change a path length of the incident radiation through t...