ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,088, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Liquid chromatograph" was invented by Hiroyuki Minato (Kyoto, Japan) and Shotaro Ando (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid chromatograph includes a sample supplier that supplies a sample into a mobile phase, a chip column having a flow path that functions as a separation column on a substrate, a packed column, a switcher configured to be switchable between a first state in which a mobile phase and a sample are guided from the sample supplier to the chip column and a second state in which a mobile phase and a sample are guided from the sample supp...