US Patent Issued to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on June 17 for "Dissolved gas sensing system and method" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,169, issued on June 17, was assigned to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, Mass.).

"Dissolved gas sensing system and method" was invented by Jason Kapit (Woods Hole, Mass.) and Anna Michel (Woods Hole, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method of use are provided; the apparatus having at least a degasser, a hollow core fiber HCF, an optical mechanism, a detector, and circuitry. The degasser enables gasses to permeate out of a liquid into the degasser interior. The propagator establishes a low-pressure area that helps to pull the gas from the degasser interior into the HCF interior, where the optical ...