ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,420, issued on May 6, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Control of sample separation based on analysis of mobile phase supply from mobile phase container" was invented by Bettina Schuhn (Karlsruhe, Germany), Uwe Effelsberg (Karlsruhe, Germany), Manuel van Venrooy (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Matthias Kamuf (Bruchsal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a sample separation apparatus, for separating a fluidic sample using a mobile phase provided from at least one mobile phase container, includes determining a weight and volume reduction behavior according to which weight and volume...