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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2013
John Magie Coffin, Blue Mounds, WI (US);
Damian W. Ashmead, Belleville, WI (US);
Todd C. Strother, Cottage Grove, WI (US);
John Magie Coffin, Blue Mounds, WI (US);
Damian W. Ashmead, Belleville, WI (US);
Todd C. Strother, Cottage Grove, WI (US);
Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLC, Madison, WI (US);
Abstract
The present invention is thus directed to an automated system and method of varying the optical path length in a sample that a light from a spectrophotometer must travel through. Such arrangements allow a user to easily vary the optical path length while also providing the user with an easy way to clean and prepare a transmission cell for optical interrogation. Such path length control can be automatically controlled by a programmable control system to quickly collect and stores data from different path lengths as needed for different spectrographic analysis. Such a methodology and system, as presented herein, is able to return best-match spectra with far fewer computational steps and greater speed than if all possible combinations of reference spectra are considered.