ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,902, issued on July 15, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Column depth measuring guide" was invented by Lucas Serge (Wilmington, Del.), Wei J. Song (Vancouver, Wash.), Eileen Huang (Hamburg, Germany), Olga Schikurski (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Kathleen Noblet (Lafayette, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, including a body including a first post and a second post positioned on opposite sides of a recessed area is disclosed. An assembly including the device is disclosed. A method of using the device is also disclosed."

The patent was filed on May 25, 2022, under Application No. 17/824,604.

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