ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,651, issued on July 1, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Gas chromatographic component analysis system and component detector including an oxidation-reduction furnace, reaction cell and photodetector" was invented by Sixu Li (Kyoto, Japan) and Masaru Kozakura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component analysis system includes a gas chromatograph having a separation column, and a component detector, the component detector including an oxidation-reduction furnace that has a first flow path through which a gas including a sample component separated by the separation column flows, and oxidizes and reduces the s...