ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,427, issued on June 10, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Preparative fluid chromatograph device" was invented by Takayuki Iriki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fraction collector (14) that is provided downstream of a detector (10) and for separating an eluate eluted from a separation column (8) into a plurality of parts and collecting each of the parts into a plurality of containers respectively, and a controller (16) configured to execute fractionation operation for each sample injected at one time into the mobile phase are provided. In the fractionation operation, the controller detects components sepa...