US Patent Issued to Hitachi High-Tech on Aug. 26 for "Column connection method of liquid chromatograph, and liquid chromatograph" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,160, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Column connection method of liquid chromatograph, and liquid chromatograph" was invented by Yusuke Shimizu (Tokyo), Takayuki Sugime (Tokyo) and Sho Iwasa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A column connection method of a liquid chromatograph and a liquid chromatograph capable of keeping a mistakenly installed column by an operator as an unused column are provided. The column connection method of the liquid chromatograph includes: a first step of installing a column at a column installation part and obtaining a first reading result by reading identification i...