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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2020
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Christopher R. Yahnker, Pasadena, CA (US);
Mark S. Anderson, Pasadena, CA (US);
Douglas C. Hofmann, Pasadena, CA (US);
Morgan Hendry, Pasadena, CA (US);
Samad A. Firdosy, Pasadena, CA (US);
Andre M. Pate, Pasadena, CA (US);
Luis Phillipe C.F. Tosi, Pasadena, CA (US);
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Abstract
A cutting tool with a cutting region and a connecting support region where the support region is designed to connect to an external motor assembly. The cutting tool is also has a porous region that is integrated within a portion of the tool such that as the tool cuts material the porous region can allow samples of the cut material to permeate into an internal chamber of the tool. Once in the internal chamber material samples can be analyzed in-situ for direct composition analysis.