US Patent Issued to SciAps on Dec. 30 for "Method of and system for detecting the concentration of brine constituents" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,486, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SciAps Inc. (Andover, Mass.).

"Method of and system for detecting the concentration of brine constituents" was invented by David Day (Boxford, Mass.) and Morgan Jennings (Lynnfield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of and system for detecting the concentration of a target element in a brine wherein the brine is sampled into a container and an aerosol generator is used to generate an aerosol stream of the sampled brine in the container. The aerosol stream may be directed to a collection system. A handheld LIB S device directs a laser beam to the aerosol stream at a location between ...