US Patent Issued to SARTORIUS LAB INSTRUMENTS on Jan. 13 for "Method of operating a balance with ionizer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,519, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SARTORIUS LAB INSTRUMENTS GMBH & Co. KG (Goettingen, Germany).

"Method of operating a balance with ionizer" was invented by Heinrich Feldotte (Goettingen, Germany), Heyko Holst (Goettingen, Germany), Winfried Graf (Goettingen, Germany) and Olaf Dudda (Goettingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a balance includes: (a) introducing an ion cloud into a weighing chamber to bring an electrostatic charge state of a weighing sample towards an electrostatic neutral state, (b) detecting the neutral state, and (c) acquiring measured values of a weighing sensor, calculating t...