ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,627, issued on July 1, was assigned to Servomex Group Ltd. (Crowborough, Great Britain).

"Electromagnetic control of absorption and suppression of spectral artifacts" was invented by Michael Lawson (Crowborough, Great Britain), Martin Lopez (Crowborough, Great Britain) and Bahram Alizadeh (Crowborough, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for the suppression and/or modulation of absorption spectrum artifacts for the purpose of gas detection and concentration measurements using at least one magnetic, electric or electromagnetic field. A field applied selectively to at least one section of the system modulate...