ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,033, issued on April 22, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Analysis device" was invented by Masahiro Kojima (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an analysis device capable of reducing vibration and noise generated by a stepping motor due to countermeasure for step-out of the stepping motor. A drive unit is controlled such that a set value of driving torque of the stepping motor increases stepwise in a plurality of steps each time the step-out of the stepping motor is detected by the step-out detection unit."

The patent was filed on April 12, 2021, under Application No. 17/922,429.

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