ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,408, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VUV Analytics Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas).
"Spectroscopy systems and methods for analyzing liquids at vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) wavelengths" was invented by Dale A. Harrison (Albany, N.Y.) and Anthony T. Hayes (Leander, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) detector for use with a liquid chromatography (LC) system (otherwise referred to herein as an LC-VUV detector) for the study of liquids. The LC-VUV detector incorporates an ultra-short pathlength flow cell into the LC-VUV detector to render liquid samples at least semi-transparent to VUV ...