US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Use of vapor deposition coated flow paths for improved analytical analysis" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,520, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Use of vapor deposition coated flow paths for improved analytical analysis" was invented by Xiaoxiao Liu (Milford, Mass.), Anna Boardman (Watertown, Mass.), Mathew H. DeLano (Needham, Mass.) and Matthew A. Lauber (North Smithfield, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for processing samples is disclosed. Interior surfaces of the device, which come in contact with fluids, define wetted surfaces. A portion of the wetted surfaces are coated with an alkylsilyl coating having the Formula I:R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are each independently selected...