ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,235, issued on May 13, was assigned to Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio).
"Seamless integrating cavity of monolithic fumed silica" was invented by Thomas Moore (San Antonio), Kurt D. Retherford (San Antonio) and Charity Phillips-Lander (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seamless fumed silica monolithic integrating cavity device tailored to analyzing a flowed sample. The device is configured to facilitate optical measurements taken from a sample flowed through a cavity of the device. The cavity is defined by a fumed silica monolith with the added feature of a fused quartz lining on the surface of the monolith. This...