US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Collet, devices, and methods for installation of fluidic conduits to fluidic components" (Pennsylvania, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,887, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Collet, devices, and methods for installation of fluidic conduits to fluidic components" was invented by Wesley M. Norman (Ludenberg, Pa.) and Wei J. Song (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collet includes a cap, a conduit grasper, a collet bore, and a collet slot. The grasper is composed of a flexible material such that the grasper is compressible in response to an applied force. A conduit such as a column is installed in a fluidic component by passing the conduit through the collet and into a fluidic coupling device. The collet...