ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,470, issued on March 18, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"Plasma source chamber for a spectrometer" was invented by Norbert Quaas (Bremen, Germany), Ayrat Murtazin (Bremen, Germany), Sebastian Geisler (Bremen, Germany), Tobias Wolf (Bremen, Germany), Jan Rathkamp (Bremen, Germany), Dirk Wohlers (Bremen, Germany) and Mikhail Skoblin (Dolgoprudny, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plasma source chamber (10) for use in a spectrometer comprises an inner housing (11) for accommodating a plasma source (31) and an outer housing (12) accommodating the inner housing. The outer housing (12) comp...