ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,960, issued on March 11, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Supercritical fluid separation apparatus" was invented by Michiaki Owa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supercritical fluid separation apparatus performs feedback control of output of a heater so that a separation part temperature becomes a set temperature, based on both output of a first temperature sensor that measures a heating block temperature and output of a second temperature sensor that measures the separation part temperature. When a difference between the separation part temperature and the set temperature is large (equal to or more than...