ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,161, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for analyzing coffee component" was invented by Natsuki Iwata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing coffee components includes, in this order, preparation step of preparing a sample solution containing coffee components extracted from coffee beans; dilution step of diluting the sample solution; and detection step of detecting the coffee components by performing liquid chromatography on the diluted sample solution. The detection step includes passing the sample solution through a column packed with a packing material having pen...