ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,371, issued on March 25, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Carrier gas connection device for gas chromatographs" was invented by Bo Chu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Carrier gas connection devices (100, 402, 404, 406, 408) enable one to change the carrier gas provided to a gas chromatography channel. The carrier gas connection devices (100, 402, 404, 406, 408) comprise a channel adaptor (102, 202), a carrier block (104, 302), and a clamping system, and two or more channel adaptor positions. In each of the channel adaptor positions, a fluid-tight flow path for carrier gas out of the carrier ...