US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on April 29 for "Sample purification apparatus and analysis system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,263, issued on April 29, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Sample purification apparatus and analysis system" was invented by Kazuteru Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan), Masahito Ueda (Kyoto, Japan), Hidefumi Yamagata (Kyoto, Japan), Shinsuke Inoue (Kyoto, Japan) and Shinji Hamasaki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample purification apparatus includes a container for separating, with a heavy solution, a mixed sample based on a specific gravity difference and a collector that collects a component in the mixed sample lighter in specific gravity than the heavy solution by receiving a supernatant flowed out from the c...