ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,089, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research System (Nagoya, Japan).

"Gas spectroscopic device and gas spectroscopic method" was invented by Tatsuya Ikehara (Kyoto-shi, Japan), Kazune Mano (Kyoto, Japan), Hideki Tomita (Nagoya-shi, Japan), Ryohei Terabayashi (Nagoya, Japan), Kenji Yoshida (Tokyo) and Shin-ichi Ninomiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A column 2 is provided in a gas capturing unit 20 for capturing sample gas. A gas supply unit 1 supplies carrier gas for sending sample gas into the column 2. A gas separation ...