Patents by Inventor Claudius B. Van Wyk

Claudius B. Van Wyk has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for sample monitoring
    Patent number: 5539309
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for monitoring a sample having `solid` and `liquid` content using a magnetic field generator and subjecting the sample to a static magnetic field in the first direction to cause the magnetic vectors of nuclei to precess about the first direction. Thereafter, the bulk magnetic vector of the sample is reoriented so as to gain a component in a plane orthogonal to the first direction and monitoring the resultant FID. A pulse sequence is then carried out that causes the spins of the nuclei to rephase and produce echoes from which the solid and liquid components of the sample can be defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Oxford Analytical Instruments Ltd.
    Inventors: Claudius B. Van Wyk, Andrew Crookell