ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,636, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Two-dimensional liquid chromatograph system" was invented by Yoshiyuki Watabe (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshihiro Hayakawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Tetsuo Iida (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-dimensional liquid chromatograph system includes a first dimension analysis part, a second dimension analysis part, a second dimension feeding device, a fraction introduction part, a shift gradient program creation part, a liquid feeding control part, and a shift timing adjustment part. The shift gradient program creation part is configured to create a shift gradient prog...