ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,134, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dionex Softron GmbH (Germering, Germany).

"Operation of a fluidic system" was invented by Martin Rendl (Munich) and Anne Morgenstern (Gilching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of operating a fluidic system, wherein the fluidic system comprises a fluidic resistive element, wherein the method comprises a defined volume flow step, wherein in the defined volume flow step, a defined volume of a fluid is forced to flow out of the fluidic resistive element, wherein the defined volume is the fluid flowing out of the fluidic resistive element in a first tim...