ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,845, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Optical measurement device and liquid chromatograph system" was invented by Takuya Yonekura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical part (2) including a measurement cell (12), a light source part (10) that emits light to be emitted to the measurement cell (12), a light receiving element (14), and a shutter (18) that shields light to the light receiving element (14), a storage part (6), a controller (4), and a calculator (8). The optical part (2) includes a temperature control element (26) for adjusting a temperature of the optical part (2), the co...