ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,769, issued on July 8, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method, system, and device for designing experimental protocol" was invented by Taichi Tomono (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for designing an experimental protocol capable of coping with more advanced processing is provided. A system according to an aspect includes at least one experimental device, a controller, and a terminal device. The controller controls the at least one experimental device to execute an experimental protocol defining processing order of the at least one experimental device. The terminal device designs the experimental pr...