US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on April 29 for "Method of cleaning liquid chromatographic system and liquid chromatographic system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,314, issued on April 29, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method of cleaning liquid chromatographic system and liquid chromatographic system" was invented by Keisuke Ogawa (Columbia, Md.), Andy Sasaki (Columbia, Md.), Kerry Hill (Columbia, Md.) and Timothy Lee (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid chromatographic system includes a first cleaning pump that supplies a cleaning solution to a first valve, a selector valve connected to a first column and a second column, the selector valve switching an object to be connected to a detector that analyzes a separated sample between the first column and the seco...