US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Feb. 4 for "Method for separating odorous compound and supercritical fluid chromatograph" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,100, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for separating odorous compound and supercritical fluid chromatograph" was invented by Yuka Fujito (Kyoto, Japan) and Takeshi Bamba (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As a technique for separating odorous compounds by using a supercritical fluid chromatograph, a method for separating an odorous compound is provided which includes a process of carrying a sample containing an odorous compound into a column filled with a packing material made of a polymer having an unsaturated hydrocarbon structure, by a flow of a mobile phase which is a supercritic...