Patents
Inventor of "Short Path Thermal Desorption" instrument and accessories, licensed and manufactured by Scientific Instrument Services Corporation, Ringoes, NJ under the following US patents :
- US patent 5,065,614 issued to T. G. Hartman et. al, November 19, 1991
"Short Path Thermal Desorption Apparatus for use in Gas Chromatography Techniques"
- US patent 5,123,276 issued to T. G. Hartman et. al, June 23, 1992
& Assembly for Transferring a Component to be Tested"
- Great Britain Patent No. 2253161 issued to T. G. Hartman et. al, February 1, 1995
"Thermal Desorption Apparatus"
- Coinventor of a microprocessor-controlled automated Short Path Thermal Desorption system called Autodesorb™, manufactured and marketed by Scientific Instrument Services Corporation, Ringoes, NJ. Product was introduced for commercial sale in March 1999.
- Coinventor of a microprocessor-controlled automated gas chromatography fractometer/olfactometer system called GC-Fractograph™, prototype system manufactured 1999 in cooperation with Scientific Instrument Services Corporation, Ringoes, NJ. Commercialization pending outcome of market survey.
Gross sales of Short Path Thermal Desorption equipment have exceeded $3,000,000. and Rutgers University has received royalties in excess of $300,000.
