ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,249, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Removing portions of undefined composition from the mobile phase" was invented by Clemens Plachetka (Malsch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid supply system, for supplying a mobile phase in a sample separation device for separating a fluidic sample in a separation path, includes a proportioning unit for proportioning multiple solvent components for composing the mobile phase, a fluid drive unit for driving the solvent components of the mobile phase, and a control unit for controlling the proportioning unit and the fluid drive unit s...