US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on June 24 for "Condensed liquid aerosol particle spray (CLAPS)-a novel on-line liquid aerosol sampling and ionization technique" (North Carolina, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,998, issued on June 24, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Condensed liquid aerosol particle spray (CLAPS)-a novel on-line liquid aerosol sampling and ionization technique" was invented by Gary L. Glish (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Nathaneal A. Park (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Kenneth D. Swanson (Dunwoody, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for ionizing analytes in a sample use an atomizer that generates aerosol particles containing the sample analytes and an emitter having inner and outer capillaries. The outer capillary is arranged about (e.g., concentrically about) the inn...