ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,929, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dionex Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Desalting system for chromatography" was invented by Yongjing Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analytical system comprises a chromatography column configured to separate a sample into one or more analytes; an ion removal device configured to remove at least ions of one charge from the mobile phase, the ion removal device fluidly coupled to an output of the chromatography column; an ion selective sensor configured to measure a signal corresponding to an activity of the ions of one charge in the mobile phase...