ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,746, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ORGANO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Simulated moving-bed type chromatographic separation method and simulated moving-bed type chromatographic separation system" was invented by Masahiro Ogino (Tokyo), Kazuo Okada (Tokyo), Masaki Tsuruta (Tokyo), Kohei Sato (Tokyo) and Toshiki Miyajima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulated moving-bed type chromatographic separation method including separating a weakly adsorptive component, a strongly adsorptive component, and an intermediately adsorptive component that has adsorptive property intermediate between the two components, with respect to an adsorbent, ...