ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,310, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dionex Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Suppressor diagnostic tool" was invented by Akinde F. Kadjo (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Rong Lin (Fountain Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are scientific instrument support systems, as well as related methods, computing devices, and computer-readable media. For example, in some embodiments, a scientific instrument support apparatus includes chromatogram logic to calculate the square of a retention time and a peak width variance for each of a plurality of peaks in a chromatogram; plate calculation logic to calculate an expected plate ...