ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,606, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ARKRAY Inc. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Liquid chromatography column with improved connection performance" was invented by Takao Minami (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid chromatography column comprising: a column tube including a flow path that runs therethrough in an axial direction of the column tube and that is filled with a filler; a filter unit that is mounted at an axial direction end of the column tube to trap the filler inside the flow path; and a cap that includes a through hole communicated with the flow path through the filter unit and that is mounted at the column tube, whe...