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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2017
Applicant:
National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, CA;
Inventors:
Paul Bouchard, Montreal, CA;
Mohamad Sabsabi, Longueuil, CA;
Christian Padioleau, Montreal, CA;
Rene Heon, Boucherville, CA;
Peter John Hardman, Woburn, MA (US);
Assignee:
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA, Ottawa, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 3/30 (2006.01); G01N 21/71 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/718 (2013.01); G01N 2201/0221 (2013.01); G01N 2201/06113 (2013.01);
Abstract
Described are various embodiments of a system, method and device for laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). In some embodiments, the LIBS system comprises a silicon photomultiplier (Si PM) operated in a time-gated photon counting mode. Some such embodiments allow for the provision of a portable LIBS device. Also provided are embodiments for the measurement of constituent carbon, gold and/or other precious metal group elements in a target sample.